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    The phenomenology of respect involves both pain and pleasure — Carmelics
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    The phenomenology of respect involves both pain and pleasure

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    • 1.The moral law humiliates the agent by striking down her self-conceit, producing pain
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    • 2.The moral law invigorates and ennobles the agent because it originates from the agent's own reason and represents her higher self and vocation, producing pleasure
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    • 1.Kant's 'respect' (Achtung) is explicitly categorized as a feeling sui generis, irreducible to the hedonic pleasure/pain distinction.
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    • 2.Classifying Achtung under pleasure and pain smuggles empirical psychology into a framework Kant insists must be purely a priori.
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    • 3.Kant states in the Groundwork that respect is not received through influence but self-wrought, making hedonic categories categorically inapplicable.
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    • 1.Rawls argues in his Kant lectures that the 'pain' of humiliation and 'pleasure' of ennoblement are phenomenologically simultaneous, not sequential, constituting a unitary motivational state.
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    • 2.If humiliation and ennoblement are not separable experiential components but aspects of one undivided recognition, the compound pleasure/pain analysis commits a mereological fallacy.
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    • 3.A unitary phenomenological state cannot be adequately analyzed by decomposing it into independently characterized hedonic parts without distorting its essential structure.
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    Even though we cannot know (or “make intelligible a priori”) how a thought or judgment about the morality of an action “can itself produce a sensation of pleasure or pain”, Kant thinks that this somehow does happen; it must, if moral considerations are to be motivating in beings like us. The phenomenology of respect is unusual, as it involves both pain and pleasure (or something like it). There is the humiliation an agent feels when the moral law strikes down her self-conceit; but respect also f
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