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The Law which is The End which is
also Spring also Spring
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On which the On which the
Morality Legality
of every free determination of will rests
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The Formal Element of the Duty of Virtue.
XII. Preliminary Notions of the Susceptibility of the Mind for Notions of Duty generally
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These are such moral qualities as, when a man does not possess them, he is not bound to acquire them. They are: the moral feeling, conscience, love of one's neighbour, and respect for ourselves (self-esteem). There is no obligation to have these, since they are subjective conditions of susceptibility for the notion of duty, not objective conditions of morality. They are all sensitive and antecedent, but natural capacities of mind (praedispositio) to be affected by notions of duty; capacities which it cannot be regarded as a duty to have, but which every man has, and by virtue of which he can be brought under obligation. The consciousness of them is not of empirical origin, but can only follow on that of a moral law, as an effect of the same on the mind.