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- Title
A DEFENSE OF DUTIES TO ONESELF IN KANT AND SOME REMARKS ON THEIR REFORMULATION IN FICHTE.
- Authors
DE HARO, VICENTE
- Abstract
One of the most frequently criticized elements of Kant's Metaphysics of Morals is the possibility of ethical duties to oneself. In this article I consider the most common arguments against these duties (from the standpoint of Utilitarianism) and I show how they can be refuted using Kant's argumentation itself. Afterwards, I point out how Fichte, in his Doctrine of Morals, accepts the duties to oneself, but relocates them within the system of duties. Finally, I suggest that the Fichtean reinterpretation emerges from a confusion over the role of the fi rst-person moral agent in the Kantian ideal of the Kingdom of ends.
- Subjects
KANTIAN ethics; KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; FICHTE, Johann Gottlieb, 1762-1814; UTILITARIANISM; SOCIAL ethics; ENDS &; means
- Publication
Signos Filosóficos, 2015, Vol 17, Issue 34, p36
- ISSN
1665-1324
- Publication type
Article