The Kantian Duty of Self-Improvement in the Context of Oppression Public Deposited
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Fakhoury, Tamara
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Philosophy
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- Is Kant's duty of natural self-perfection a moral obligation for individuals who suffer the harms of oppression? In this paper I argue that it is. Understood in a Kantian framework, the project of self-improvement is neither impossible nor too onerous a task under oppression. Adopting the end of self-improvement is a requirement of self-respect and an accessible and morally worthy means of resisting one's oppression.
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- May 2015
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- Hill, Thomas E.
- Boxill, Bernard
- MacLean, Douglas
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- Master of Arts
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- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
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- 2015
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- Chapel Hill, NC
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