充满智慧、幽默的哈佛大学公开课-第11讲服从你的动机(18)

- I see. So, you"re imagining a case not of the purely selfish calculating shopkeeper but of one who says, well, he may consider shortchanging the customer, but then he says, "Not, well, my reputation might suffer if word gets out."
- 如果他认为要做正确的事，给顾客找对钱，而且认为是他的动机在驱使他这么做，因为他想做个有道德的人。那不就与……如果道德是被他的动机决定的话，那不就与他行为的纯粹性相矛盾了吗？那么他的动机就是有道德的行为。- 我懂了。所以你在想象一种情况，这里不是一个非常自私的店主，而是这样一个人，他可能会考虑少找顾客零钱，但是他说，“并不是因为如果传言出去的话，我的信誉可能会到损害。”
But instead he says, "Actually, I would like to be the kind of honest person who gives the right change to customers simply because it"s the right thing to do." Or simply, "Because I want to be moral."
而是，“实际上，我想要做一个诚实的，不给顾客找错钱的店主，只是因为这是正确的做法。”或只是“因为我想要做个有道德的人。”
"Because I want to be moral, i want to be a good person, and so I"m going to conform all of my actions to what morality requires." It"s a subtle point, it"s a good question.
“因为我想做个有道德的人，做个好人，所以我所有的行为都会遵循道德要求去做。”这一点很微妙，问得非常好。
Kant does acknowledge, you"re pressing Kant on an important point here. Kant does say there has to be some incentive to obey the moral law, it can"t be a self-interested incentive that would defeat it by definition.