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LOVE, RESPECT, AND INTERFERING WITH OTHERS
Author(s) -
SEYMOUR FAHMY MELISSA
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
pacific philosophical quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.914
H-Index - 32
eISSN - 1468-0114
pISSN - 0279-0750
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0114.2011.01390.x
Subject(s) - beneficence , happiness , argument (complex analysis) , philosophy , set (abstract data type) , epistemology , key (lock) , law , social psychology , psychology , autonomy , political science , computer science , chemistry , biochemistry , programming language , computer security
The fact that Kantian beneficence is constrained by Kantian respect appears to seriously restrict the Kantian's moral response to agents who have embraced self‐destructive ends. In this paper I defend the Kantian duties of love and respect by arguing that Kantians can recognize attempts to get an agent to change her ends as a legitimate form of beneficence. My argument depends on two key premises. First, that rational nature is not identical to the capacity to set ends, and second, that an agent's conception of her happiness is not identical to the satisfaction of her ends.