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Episode 10: Kantian Ethics: What Should We Do?

The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast

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You Should Never Kill Yourself for Any Reason

If you are in misery with no chance for relief, you should kill yourself. Can you conceive of a world where that's the case? Yes, that everybody, when they reach a certain point of misery, and no relief kills themselves. It might not be something we want, but it's certainly possible. And lands as comniea y as o amaxon, it says, you should never kill yourself for any reason. That's a different thought experiment. I mean, youre suposed to take one maxim and universalize and imagine the world in which that is a descriptive law. So saying there's another world in which a different maxim is universalized is irrelevant.

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