Indeed, it may often be no challenge at all to do one's duty from duty alone.
First, virtue is a disposition to comply with the moral law (i.e., to do one's duty) do one's duty out of respect for the moral law (CPrR 5 128, 160; C 27 300).
This was not the old Indian orthodoxy: for Misal, the world was not illusion, maya; it was not enough simply to do one's duty and do it well and be satisfied with what God gave.
However, it is difficult to apply this virtue-ethical assumption to the artificial virtues, because the good motive operative in their instance is the conscientious desire to do one's duty or what is right or obligatory.
Ross holds that virtue is the most important and that some virtuous motives are more important than others (e.g., the desire to do one's duty is more valuable than the desire to promote others' pleasure) (RG 152, 153, 164, 166).
To do one's duty is to achieve integrity and integrity is near the center of nobility.
We know that one doesn't need to be fanatical, sadistic, or mentally ill to murder millions; that it is enough to be a loyal follower eager to do one's duty".
According to Hindu teachers, the fulfillment comes from doing one's duty with conviction, with honesty, love and a sense of justice.
The sermon conjures some of the idealism that surrounds what's come to be called the maker movement, and the suggested pleasure one might take in doing one's duty with exactly the right implement.
The problem has been intensified by many attempts beginning with Kant's treatise on religion, Die Religion innerhalb der Grenzen der blossen Vernunft (1793; Religion Within the Boundary of Pure Reason)—to interpret religion as essentially morality or merely as an incentive for doing one's duty.
Doing one's duty does not win the agent any credit.
