Consider Kant's Ethics and answer the following questions: A) How is it possible that the right action may not have any

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Consider Kant's Ethics and answer the following questions: A) How is it possible that the right action may not have any

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Consider Kant's Ethics and answer thefollowing questions:
A) How is it possible that the right action may nothave any moral worth or moral content?
For example, Kant claims that protecting your own lifeis a right thing to do (it is a duty-toward-oneself; it is eachperson’s moral obligation). But Kant seems to think that when yourun away from danger out of your inborn instinct to protect yourlife, you do not act morally and your act does not have any moralworth. In this case, you do what is right (you protect your life),but this action does not have any moral value. Whynot?
B) Kant thinks that protecting your life out ofinstinct does not count as a fulfillment of your moral obligationto protect your life. What is the proper moral motivation toprotect your life for Kant? [150 words]
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