What Right Do You Have to Be Happy?
Seriously . . .
6 min readFeb 21, 2024
It's Monday night. I've finished teaching my ethics class. We covered Kant this week — he who said that acts of kindness performed because one finds an inner satisfaction in spreading joy have no true moral worth. No, Kant said, the only acts that have genuine moral worth are those performed only from duty and without any inclination or sentiment. One needs a stiff drink after…