
Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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The Instinct of Self Preservation Is Not Like We're Looking at Ical Facts of Nature
Kant's maxim is 'I love myself so much. I want to kill myself' The instinct of self preservation comes out of that maxim because it's self love that leads you to one it commit suicide. A third finds in himself a talent whose cultivation would make him a useful man for all sorts of but he prefers to give himself up to pleasure rather than improve his fortunate natural aptitudes. Yet, a fourth finds himself flourishing, but he sees others who have been through great hardships and whom he could easily help. He then sees that such a system of nature could indeed always subsist undeer such a universal law. But althoughit is possible that a universal law of nature could subsist
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