Kant and the moral feeling

Our aim in this paper is to make a general analyze of the moral feeling in Kantian moral philosophy establishing a relationship with the theme of moral motivation. The structure of our argument will be divided into three parts: (i) a historical-conceptual rebuilding of the term moral sense, stressing the influence of Hutcheson on Kantian moral philosophy; (ii) we will investigate the esthetical nature of the feeling in Kant through the faculty of pleasure and unpleasure, (iii) we will stressing our defense of which the feeling is a Kantian trying to explain the subjective demands necessary to the moral acting, this is, the moral feeling explains the dispositional attitude of the subject concerning the moral law.