It’s better when we have our heart in it, and my point is that moral reasoning can help us do that.
My bad, I should have been clearer. I meant to say “isn’t it better when we have our heart in it, and we can dispense with the reasoning or the rule consulting?”
I should note, you would be in good company if you answered “no.” Kant believed that an action has no moral worth if it was not motivated by duty, a motivation that results from correctly reasoning about one’s moral imperatives. He really did seem to think we should be reasoning about our duties all the time. I think he was mistaken.
My bad, I should have been clearer. I meant to say “isn’t it better when we have our heart in it, and we can dispense with the reasoning or the rule consulting?”
I should note, you would be in good company if you answered “no.” Kant believed that an action has no moral worth if it was not motivated by duty, a motivation that results from correctly reasoning about one’s moral imperatives. He really did seem to think we should be reasoning about our duties all the time. I think he was mistaken.