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Justice 07 A Lesson in Lying / A Deal is a Deal Funding for this program is provided by Additional funding provided by Last time we began trying to we began by trying to navigate our way through Kants moral theory. Now, fully to make sense of Kant moral theory in the groundwork requires that we be able to answer three questions. How can duty and autonomy go together? Whats the great dignity in answering to duty? It would seem that these two ideas are opposed duty and autonomy. Whats Kants answer to that? Need someone here to speak up on Kants behalf. Does he have an answer? Yes, go ahead, stand up. Kant believes you the only act autonomously when you are pursuing something only the name of duty and not because of your own circumstances such as ®C like youre only doing something good and moral if youre doing it because of duty and not because something of your own personal gain. Now why is that acting°≠ whats your name? My name is Matt. Matt, why is that acting on a freedom? I hear what youre saying about duty? Because you choose to accept those moral laws in yourself and not brought on from outside upon onto you. Okay, good. Because acting out of duty ®C Yeah.- is following a moral law That you impose on yourself. That you impose on yourself. Thats what makes duty compatible with freedom.- Yeah. Okay, thats good Matt. That is Kants answer. Thats great. Thank you. So, Kants answer is it is not in so far as I am subject to the law that I have dignity but rather in so far as with regard to that very same law, Im the author and I am subordinated to that law on that ground that I took it as much as at I took it upon myself. I willed that law. Justice 07 A Lesson in Lying / A Deal is a Deal 1 So thats why for Kant acting according to duty and acting freely in the sense of autonomously are one and the same. But that raises the question, how many moral