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K ant and K ierkegaard on Inwardness and Moral Luck
Author(s) -
Lockhart Jennifer Ryan
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
philosophical investigations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.172
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 1467-9205
pISSN - 0190-0536
DOI - 10.1111/phin.12085
Subject(s) - commit , morality , luck , philosophy , criticism , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , subject (documents) , law , political science , computer science , linguistics , database , library science
Abstract The traditional understanding of K ant and K ierkegaard is that their views on the good will and inwardness, respectively, commit them to denying moral luck in an attempt to isolate an omnipotent moral subject from involvement with the external world. This leaves them vulnerable to the criticism that their ethical thought unrealistically insulates morality from anything that happens in the world. On the interpretation offered here, inwardness and the good will are not contrasted with worldly happenings, but are instead a matter of worldly happenings that exhibit a particular temporal structure. K ant and K ierkegaard should not be understood as denying moral luck.