ethics
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Consequences without consequentialism (and striving for the impossible) – 10th week of Kant
Even if by some particular disfavour of fate, or by the scanty endowment of a stepmotherly nature, this will should entirely lack the capacity to carry through its purpose; if despite its greatest striving it should still accomplish nothing, and only the good will were to remain (not, of course, as a mere wish, but…
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The (Kantian) wrong in lying to children – 8th week of Kant
A lie is a rejection and – so to speak – the destruction of man’s own dignity. A man who does not believe himself what he says to another one (even if it were a merely ideal person) has a lesser value than if he were simply a thing; since a thing is something real…
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Hope, and the need to be irrational – 7th week of Kant
Only in a practical relation, however, can taking something that is theoretically insufficient to be true be called believing. This practical aim is either that of skill or of morality, the former for arbitrary and contingent ends, the latter, however, for absolutely necessary ends. Once an end is proposed, then the conditions for attaining it…
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Taking animal suffering seriously – 3rd week of Kant
Lest he extinguish [the kindly and humane qualities in himself], [man] must already practise a similar kindliness towards animals; for a person who already displays such cruelty to animals is also no less hardened towards men. We can already know the human heart even in regard to animals. […] The more we devote ourselves to…
Álvaro Rodríguez-González Barredo 