ABSTRACT
This chapter is directed at those who claim that only motivation by duty, or by emotions which involve attachment to duty, rather than motivation by emotions which do not involve attachment to duty, is morally good. It shows the falsity of the arguments advanced by Kant and by some recent Kantians against emotions as moral motives, in their attempts to establish duty as the moral motive. In order to understand the nature of the value which Kant attributes to acting from duty and denies to acting from emotion, we need to look at just what Kant has in mind by the notion of moral worth. The author strategy is to examine some of the main arguments which Kant and his followers use to deny that emotions can be moral motives, in order to uncover some of the criteria which they consider important for moral motives to satisfy.
