Kant’s theory of moral action faces a serious difficulty concerning motivation: how do commands of pure practical reason solely move human agents to perform moral actions? In his response, Kant claims that human agents perform moral actions out of a feeling of respect for the moral law. However, attempts to accommodate a feeling of respect into Kant’s rigorously rationalist ethical theory have led to two diverging strands of interpretation in the secondary literature: intellectualism and affectivism. Against this context, this paper proposes an interpretation of Kantian moral motivation with an appropriate place for the notion of respect within it to resolve the motivational problem concerning moral actions. According to the model of Kantian moral motivation that this paper develops, motivation to act morally takes place in two sequential stages, each involving the positive role of respect as a motive. By arguing for a positive role of the feeling of respect in the process of moral motivation, this model aligns with the affectivist school of interpretation.

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康德人的道德动机：一种情感主义的解释

康德的道德行为理论在动机方面面临着严重的困难：纯实践理性的命令如何仅仅促使人类行为者执行道德行为？康德在回应中声称，人类代理人出于对道德法则的尊重而进行道德行为。但是，试图在康德严格的理性主义伦理理论中加入一种尊重的感觉，导致在二级文献中产生了两种不同的解释：知识论和情​​感主义。在此背景下，本文提出了一种康德道德动机的解释方法，在其中包含了尊重观念的适当位置，以解决涉及道德行为的动机问题。根据本文发展的康德道德动机模型，道德行为动机分为两个连续的阶段，每一个都涉及尊重作为动机的积极作用。通过主张尊重感在道德动机过程中的积极作用，该模型与情感主义的解释学派相吻合。