Jessica Tizzard
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first heard Nov 2020
last heard Nov 2020
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Yeah.
Where that's understood is I should have been nicer to her, not because it would have made her happier, but because I sort of owed her that.
And so far, she's another moral being.
Yeah.
Right.
Right.
So is the question, can some of these principles sort of be dictated by society in a way that sort of could vary from one society to another?
Yeah.
Yeah.
So I think there is room for that on Kant.
And maybe one good distinction to introduce now that's, I think, very related to the phenomenon of weakness and also has general application beyond Kant scholarship is
He distinguishes between what he calls perfect duties and imperfect duties.
And perfect duties are things like, you know, not to kill, not to steal.
And I think here there are no exceptions.
And so on his view, there is no room for sort of latitude across cultures or societies.
If something can be defined as killing, it's wrong.
But then with imperfect duties, right, there's sort of general ends that we're supposed to have.
Things like being good to my parents or being beneficent to others, taking the happiness of others into account, developing my talents, things like this.
And so it's very unclear exactly how to do those things, right?
He calls them wide duties in the sense that they don't specify particular actions that we're supposed to do.
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