From Natural Feeling to Moral Feeling: Kant and the Limitations of Happiness

Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)

"Kant argues that happiness is the result of the recognition of 'moral worth. It cannot ground it. This paper forms part of an ongoing analysis of the thinking of 'happiness' (Glück/Glückseilgkeit - though equally eudaimonia) in the writings Epicurus, Nietzsche and Kant. In this instance emphasis is given to Kant's Critique of Practical Reason".