or thinking into things.Getting back to the first piece on the Hindu poem called “Right Action” it is a very difficult question that Arjuna faces. While he is told by Krishna to obey ones duty because if he does not it will be both sinful and upset the balance of things. Arjuna does have a good argument not to fight. It is difficult to see how doing ones duty is more important then his friends and family in this case. Would Arjuna not have a duty to these people as well? As Kant states we do have a duty to others as long as there is no self-interest in mind and in this case I see no way that Arjuna would be not fighting for his own for self-interest. He runs the risk of being called a coward for not fighting Krishna tells him and so there would definitely not be any self-interest to that. Besides perhaps he is fighting not out of duty but because he has been told to fight. This is definitely not his own will then and can not be classified as duty. Assuming that he fights simply because it is his duty then Krishna does make a good point in saying that Arjuna is not killing anybody because their souls live on in the afterlife. Also the ability not to control the senses and dwell on them in the mind is what causes the downfall of a man. If Arjuna can learn to control them he will see clearly that what he is doing by fighting is pure of duty and his questions will be laid to rest.Many of Kants' ideas are also the same. He talks of reason carrying out action as being bad. Instead instinct should control action. As he goes on he gets to the point that in the end universal law is what one should follow because even will is eliminated with duty. This is because to do duty is to eliminate inclinations so nothing is left to determine the will. The problem I see with this reasoning is that the universal laws he speaks of are never stated. He says that he himself does not know what they are and this makes following the...
