Citation

Flores LML. Signos Filosoficos 2021; 23(46): 8-27.

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(Copyright © 2021)

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Abstract

It is common knowledge the position of Kant regarding the immorality of suicide. Several authors attribute him an absolutist-forbidden criterion. Nerveless, there is no extended analysis about the metaphysical-conceptual definition of suicide in Kantian theory. In this paper I hold that suicide in Kant can be defined as physical death, full, self-referential, voluntary, and immoral. This definition conflicts with the definition of deprivation of life which is not immoral. As voluntarily acts, both suicide and deprivation of life are rational acts that can be understood as maxims of action. The immorality property of suicide is due to the primacy of moral over non-moral reasons (technical or pragmatic). © 2021 Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana, Department of Philosophy. All rights reserved.

Language: es

Keywords

freedom; immorality of suicide; maxims; practical rationality; will