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Self-Knowledge and Morality
Anna Linne

Endnotes

1. Akeel Bilgrami, Self-Knowledge and Resentment Harvard University Press, 2012

2. “You can change the head, but not the heart.” Arthur Schopenhauer, The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethic, a new translation by David E. Cartwright and Edmund E. Erdmann, Oxford University Press, 2010

3. The Two Fundamental Problems of Ethic, a new translation by David E. Cartwright and Edmund E. Erdmann, Oxford University Press, 2010

4. Id., at 202

5. Id., at 212

6. Kant says: “virtue and happiness together constitute possession of the highest good in a person, and happiness distributed in exact proportion to morality (as the worth of a person and his worthiness to be happy) constitutes the highest good of a possible world.” Kant, I. & Reath, A. (1997). Kant: Critique of Practical Reason (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy) (M. Gregor, Ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 5:110-111.

7. “The depths of the human heard are unfathomable.” Kant, Immanuel, et al. Groundwork for the Metaphysics of Morals. Oxford University Press, 2019

8. “This command is ”know (scrutinize, fathom) yourself,“ not in terms of your natural perfection (your fitness or unfitness for all sorts of discretionary or even commanded ends) but rather in terms of your moral perfection in relation to your duty. That is, know your heart-whether it is good or evil, whether the source of your actions is pure or impure, and what can be imputed to you as belonging originally to the substance of a human being or as derived (acquired or developed) and belonging to your moral condition.” Id.

9. An epic poem written in Akkadian during the late 2nd millennium BC.



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