Title

Moral Feeling and Motive: Kant, Schiller and Mou Zongsan

Author

Shi, Weimin

Genre

Article  

Pages

597-630

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Language

Chinese  

Key words

Mou Zongsan, Schiller, Kant, moral feeling, moral motives

Abstract

      It is widely accepted that Mou Zongsan 牟宗三’s moral philosophy differs from Kant’s in that the former does not accept the dichotomy of rationality and sensibility made by the latter. It is moreover often claimed that both Schiller and Mou see in the moral subject’s moral feelings the power for his self-actualization. In contrast to these positions, I argue in this paper, first, that Schiller does not regard feelings to be the moving power behind moral acts, and second, that Mou’s criticism of Kant actually is rooted in an idea of moral action that is radically different from Kant’s.