On Respect - Kantian Ethics Only Moral Sentiments

Respect is a very important concept in the system of Kant's ethics. It is combined with the will constrainedly, and as empirical motive, it prompts human's tendency towards the summum bonum.Respect originates from the practical reason and it issues from the moral law produced by the ration. Kant postulated the freedom in the theoretical reason and confirmed the reality of freedom, that is, the positive freedom, through the mutual verification of the moral law in practical reason. Therefore the freedom is the keystone in the system of his critical philosophy. And since then, the freedom has produced the respect when it determines the free will. The object of the respect is simply the moral law.The requirement of the respect is the dual existence of human being. The purely rational beings need no respect to put the moral law into practice. Non-rational beings have to obey the law of causality because they can't set the purpose for themselves, having no origin of respect. So respect only emerges from the human as the dual-existence. As a practical motive, the moral law rejects sensible impulses then produces pains, but it will produce the respect when the moral law tries to be the practical motive.Respect has close relationships with Kant's rational postulation such as the freedom, the immortality of the soul and the God. The consciousness for the moral law which is called reason fact, in fact, is gained from respect and verifies the reality of freedom from which we realize the immortality of the soul and the God are the reality. The later two give boundless magic and produce the respect. On the contrary, human tend to the summum bonum by unlimitedly closing the fit with the moral law when the respect is the subjective motive. Respect is an inevitable way which the limited rational being closes to the summum bonum. By comparing the system of the summum bonum and respect of Kant with Confucius', we can see their differences in origin and content, etc. Kant established human's subject and morality in the ontology.We can measure the success and faults with the system of respect. The successful aspect is: human's moral freedom is liberated from natural necessity. Kant attributed the practically morality to a rational world. Therefore it makes freedom shake off the natural necessity, and makes the subject practice become the morality, and purifies the morality at the same time. And he found the reliable path to the moral practice. The aspect of the faults is: Kant didn't perfectly deal with the relationship of the ration and the sensation, so that it depends on the belief closing to the summum bonum. Because Kant divided the world into phenomenon one and rational one, it made that the ration cannot get well with the sensation. The human simply depends on the respect to the moral law for closing to the summum bonum. So the respect is actually the belief.