In his 1763 essay, Kant alternatively deals with these problems in a psychological way. He adapts the theory of Hutcheson and later with Smith. Insofar his treatment could be at least served by supplying a demonstrable principle of obligation. Having drawn the conclusions of the doctrine as below, Kant avoids him falling into Leibinizian optimism. We have recognized that the faculty of predicable truth is about the intellectual ability, moreover, the sensation of the food is obtained via our feeling, and most importantly this feeling seems not to be interchanged at this aspect. The analogy of this issue can be easily made between the un-analyzable concepts of the true and the un-analyzable feeling of the good. We attempt to understand the …show more content…
Subjects feel the un-analyzable good as many kinds of concepts we directly follow with. Given its peculiar sensation and subjective characteristics, the concept of the good becomes absolutely indemonstrable. Moral obligation, in this way, is to be closely associated with this subjective privacy. At the end of this essay, Kant concludes that we acquire ‘many’ such simple feelings of the good in practice, the good is indeed ‘the foundation for all the other practical principles’. Even though he addresses that the fundamental principle of obligation still needed to be ‘determined more reliably’,this essay nevertheless indicates that Kant’s early views come to the perspective that the obligation or necessary end primarily driven by a kind of subjective, simple, and indemonstrable …show more content…
Kant adopted another psychological way to describe the good functions: one’s immediate good feeling remains indemonstrable to others; but it could be demonstrable to oneself. The simple sensation of a good feeling is intuitively irrefutable and psychologically immediate. One has the indemonstrable private feelings that are undeniably present. What, then, is the basis of morality? … From what power does the principle come, and how does it run? … Those who assume a moral sense, whereby we are supposedly able, by feeling, to perceive the propriety or impropriety of our actions, have the principle of moral feeling. Shaftesbury introduced it, and had many Englishmen, including Hutcheson, among his followers. The moral and the empirical senses are both internal empirical grounds. Kant admits that subjective, empirical, internal determining ground of moral feeling in moral sense theories is the principle of