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latter conditioned by and proportioned to the former, pp.
283 - 285 --An accurate correspondence between happiness
and moral worth to be expected only if there is a moral
and all-powerful Supreme Being who establishes such cor-
respondence, p. 283 --The combination of morality and hap-
piness in the summum bonum said to be recognized a
priori, as indispensably required by practical reason, but
obviously the outcome of the moral emotion of retributive
kindliness towards a virtuous person worthy of happiness,
p. 284 sq.--Kant's view that the sole object of punishment
is retribution in accordance with the principle of equiv-
alence both in quality and quantity (jus talionis), pp.
286 - 288 --This doctrine, regarded by him as a dictate of
practical reason, obviously an expression of the emotion
of moral resentment, p. 288 --The emotional background
transparent throughout the ethics of the greatest of all
rational moralists an important fact in favour of the main
contentions in this book: that the moral consciousness is
ultimately based on emotions, that the moral judgment
lacks objective validity, that the moral values are not ab-
solute but relative to the emotions they express, p. 289.
INDEX 291

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