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Dec 10, 2016 · While Kant himself does not discuss this type of scenario (called self-defense under an innocent aggressor), a moral theory informed by the Kantian maxim (Never treat others as mere means) has been developed in the name of the doctrine of double effect (DDE).
Jun 29, 2021 · Self-defense is typically assumed to be morally optional: victims are permitted to refrain from use defensive force. By contrast, we might think that defending others is presumably morally required (at least if the costs of doing so are not excessive).
II addresses Kant's understanding of the duty of self-preservation and how it would demand acting in self-defense in order to prevent oneself from being murdered.
Kantian Duties to the Self, Explained and Defended precondition of all obligation, even obligation to others.9 At the beginning of the section in question, Kant mentions a puzzle about the possibility of duties to the self: Does the self not have to be both active and passive at the same time, which is impossible? And
May 19, 2016 · Broadly speaking, self-defense is action taken to prevent or reduce harm to oneself (or one’s property) threatened by another. 1 As such, locking one’s front door or changing a password for an email account can count as self-defense. From a moral point of view, protecting oneself in these kinds of ways seems unproblematic.
This chapter begins by admitting how strongly Kant does seem to denounce lying and, indeed, self-deception. It further elaborates Kant's attacks.
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Kant’s thesis that all duty rests on duties to the self is shown to follow from the autonomy of the human will; and the allegation that they are impossible because the agent could always release himself from such a duty turns out to be question-begging.
