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    Fulfilling imperfect duties requires strength of will and... — Carmelics
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    Fulfilling imperfect duties requires strength of will and self-mastery (which Kant calls courage)

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    • 1.Human beings are always fighting against impulses and dispositions that oppose the moral law
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    • 2.Imperfect duties require inner legislation — the agent must impose these duties on themselves
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    • 3.Overcoming opposing impulses to fulfill self-imposed duties requires strength of will and self-mastery
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    • 1.For Aristotle, virtuous action flows from stable character without struggle — the fully virtuous person acts well without inner conflict.
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    • 2.If imperfect duties required ongoing struggle against impulse, the morally developed agent would paradoxically never achieve genuine virtue.
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    • 3.Kant's 'courage' model thus describes moral immaturity, not the telos of moral development, conflating effort with excellence.
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    • 1.Christine Korsgaard and others argue that Kantian duty-fulfillment for integrated agents involves rational endorsement, not volitional combat.
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    • 2.An agent whose desires are properly ordered by practical reason experiences imperfect duty fulfillment as motivationally harmonious, not effortful self-mastery.
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    • 3.Therefore, 'strength of will' is contingently required only given morally deficient character, not constitutively required by imperfect duties as such.
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    The tendencies to find room for motive and character in the area of imperfect duty, and to assimilate virtue with continence, resurface in the writings of several moral philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries. Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) is an illustrative case. In the Metaphysics of Morals, Kant divides moral philosophy into two domains, that of justice or law on the one hand (the Doctrine of Right), and that of ethics or virtue on the other (the Doctrine of Virtue). The duties that form the
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