*So that one might very two well-known lines of Haller thus:
With all his failings, man is still
Better than angels void of will.
We may, indeed, say that man is obliged to virtue (as a moral
strength). For although the power (facultas) to overcome all
imposing sensible impulses by virtue of his freedom can and must be
presupposed, yet this power regarded as strength (robur) is
something that must be acquired by the moral spring (the idea of the
law) being elevated by contemplation of the dignity of the pure law of
reason in us, and at the same time also by exercise.
XI. According to the preceding Principles, the Scheme of Duties of
Virtue may be thus exhibited
The Material Element of the Duty of Virtue
1 2
Internal Duty of Virtue External Virtue of Duty
My Own End, The End of Others,
which is also my the promotion of
Duty which is also my
Duty
(My own (The Happiness
Perfection) of Others)
3 4
The Law which is The End which is
also Spring also Spring
On which the On which the
Morality Legality
of every free determination of will rests
The Formal Element of the Duty of Virtue.
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