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Self-improvement

An Essay in Kantian Ethics

by Robert N. Johnson

  • Hardback
  • 192 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

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For those seeking to understand self-improvement ethics

Addresses doubts about the duty to improve oneself

You will gain insights that inspire personal growth

This thought-provoking essay explores the moral obligation of self-improvement from a Kantian perspective.

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Is there any moral obligation to improve oneself, to foster and develop various capacities in oneself? From a broadly Kantian point of view, Self-Improvement defends the view that there is such an obligation and that it is an obligation that each person owes to him or herself. The defence addresses a range of arguments philosophers have mobilized against this idea, including the argument that it is impossible to owe anything to yourself, and the view that an obligation to improve onself is overly 'moralistic'. Robert N. Johnson argues against Kantian universalization arguments for the duty of self-improvement, as well as arguments that bottom out in a supposed value humanity has. At the same time, he defends a position based on the notion that self- and other-respecting agents would, under the right circumstances, accept the principle of self-improvement and would leave it up to each to be the person to whom this duty is owed.
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  • Author

    Robert N. Johnson

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    October 2011

  • Weight

    382g

  • Page Count

    192

  • Dimensions

    14 x 21.6 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9780199599349

  • ISBN-10

    0199599343

  • Eden Code

    4564119

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