Is Your Legacy To Yourself Or To Others And What Is Important For Morality?Modifying Kant's Categorical Imperative.

Kant;Suicide;Prudential;Rational Suicide;Categorical Imperative;Moral duties to self

Beckett, Trees M ; Moore, Andrew ; Ellis, Lisa

University of Otago

关键词: Kant;    Suicide;    Prudential;    Rational Suicide;    Categorical Imperative;    Moral duties to self;   

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美国|英语

来源: Otago University Research Archive

【 摘 要 】

This thesis builds on a conditional claim that Kant’s prudential account of happiness has implications for his account of morality and a new taxonomy of prudence and morality is proposed. Other-regarding and self-regarding contexts are distinguished as moral and prudential respectively.It is argued that morality is other-regarding only because self-regarding contexts do not meet the criteria for universalisation and the humanity formula only applies to other-regarding contexts. The primary exemplar is suicide. On Kant;;s own classification system the landscape around suicide changes significantly in both self-regarding and other-regarding contexts.This also has implications for Kant’s account of moral duties to self. In a self-regarding context the matter, when rational, is prudent and non-moral.It is argued that there is no moral basis for interference with a rational person’s decision about suicide and that there is no moral duty to self against suicide in this context.