The "pathological" feelings that we have indirect duties to cultivate are of genuine, but conditional, moral value.
Indeed, Kant clearly sees moral value in some sensibly-grounded ("pathological") feelings as well as special rationally grounded ones discussed above.
Although Kant takes many pathological feelings (such as sympathy and parental love) to be of vast moral usefulness, and worthy of cultivation for moral purposes, Kant puts conscience, moral feeling, self-respect, and love of one's neighbor in a special category of feelings.
Despite the risks associated with HRT use, pharmaceutical marketing has presented the menopause, a natural part of women's life cycle, as pathological, creating the feeling of real illness among the population and ensuring that HRT is recommended and prescribed (30).
Netherlands Trial Register (NTR): NTR566 Personality disorders (PDs) are characterized by an enduring, pervasive and pathological pattern of thoughts, feeling and behavior expressed in a dysfunctional and inappropriate manner, which is deviant from societal norms.
Pathological gamblers report euphoric feelings during gambling episodes, comparable to the "high" in substance use, thus making them more prone to continued gambling.
However, neither the love nor the respect we owe is a matter of feeling (or, is pathological, as Kant says), but is, rather, a duty to adopt a certain kind of maxim, or policy of action: the duty of love is the duty to make the ends of others my own, the duty of respect is the duty to not degrade others to the status of mere means to my ends (Kant 1779, 6: 449–450).
Rather than feeling schizophrenic or somehow pathological, digital natives understand that these two realms divide the self much as speech and the written word divide language, a division that humans have lived with for a long time without going bonkers.
Watch enough of these films, and you may get the feeling that there's something pathological about Hollywood's condescension towards malls.
Bill is a real louse, a pathological mix of charm, menace and lack of feeling -- dangerous to know.
