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OBJECTIVE INTU1TIONISM 22J
is in an ideally good man set over all the other faculties.
Our sense of duty is, in other words, or rather, in the ideally
good man it should be, in authority over both self-interest
and desire. I then outlined the moral theory of Kant,
according to which the authority with which the feeling
of moral obligation makes itself felt is derived from the
world of reality, distinguished from that of appearance.
Kant may be classed as an objective-intuitionist in virtue of
his teaching that the moral law prescribes the performance
of certain actions irrespective of consequences or desires,
these actions having the property of being such as we
ought to perform*
Finally, I ventured to criticize this specifically Kantian
conception on the ground that the view that what we
ought to do as something which distinguishes itself mainly,
if not solely, in opposition to what we want to do, is at
variance with the deliverances of the moral consciousness
of Tflfrnkind.
Books
BUTLBR, JOSEPH. Sermons; Dissertation on Virtue. (Both in
Butler's Analogy and Sermons, Bonn's Library).
KANT, IIOCAHUEL. Foundation for a Metaphysic of Mbrab.
The text of Kant is very difficult and the student will be well
advised to read Kant in the form of extracts. Selection* from
Kant, translated byJohn Watson, pages 295-302, is recommended.
III and V.
BROAD, C. D. Five Types of Ethical Theory, Chapters
SELBY BIGOE, L. British Moralists. Contains an account of the
English Intiritioniiti referred to at the beginning of the chapter.
MABTXNEAU, JAMSS. Types of Ethical Theory, represent! a some*
what extreme intuitionist point of view.
FIELD, G. C. Moral Theory.