Duties to oneself

Oliver Sensen

pp. 285-306

in: The Palgrave Kant handbook, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Abstract

Sensen analyzes Kant's justification of duties to oneself. Why does Kant say that duties to oneself have priority over other duties? Sensen concludes that there is a common idea behind the different formulas of the categorical imperative: the idea that our human capacities have a high importance. Kant's ethics needs anthropology to derive concrete duties from this general idea.

Cited authors

Kant Immanuel