GegenStandpunkt – Are Duties Reasonable?
This question is indignantly rejected by ethics teachers. They are not asking whether there are reasonable grounds for morality and ethical behaviour, but what they might be. Some representatives of this discipline even think that reason and morality are the same anyway. On the other hand, it is no secret that duty - what one should or must do - is obviously not the same as what one wants of one's own accord. It is…