Will, Deontology, Eudaimonism

Kant's deontologization of Ethics has resulted, more recently, in 'Kantian Ethics' being abstracted from its original focus on the structure of Rational Autonomy, to the reduction of it to a mere exercise in applied Modal Logic, i. e. to Deontic Logic. Furthermore, his assimilation of that structure to the burdensome morality of self-imposed duty, diverges from its essentially Eudaimonistic tradition, i. e. for Aristotle and Spinoza, Happiness is Activeness, not Passivity, as it is conventionally taken to be. Now, if Happiness is Activeness, the process of self-activation is, concomitantly, an exhilarating process. Here, self-activation is Will, with respect to which onerous deontological impositions, e. g. Kantian imperatives, are, therefore, unnecessary, if not counter-productive.