Jessica Tizzard

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Elucidations · Episode 130: Jessica Tizzard discusses weakness of the will · 22 Nov 2020 podcast

And for Kant, I think we don't even need to necessarily specify the added condition that I have something to do tomorrow that's important and I should be thinking about that.

I think for Kant, we can see duties conflicting, moral duties conflicting.

in just the idea of going to a big party because he thinks there's two sort of things at work here, right?

So I should say that Kant just historically as a person loved parties and thought they were extremely important.

He gets a bad rap.

People think he was this really boring guy who never did anything and sort of lived his life in this regimented order.

And did the same thing at the same time every day.

But it's very true that he just he loved parties that they're super important.

And he thinks that there's a moral dimension to them.

So the kind of company that I enjoy in a party, you know, the coming together with lots of different people.

And being able to converse freely over many hours in sort of a relaxed situation is a moral good for him.

He thinks we have sort of a wide duty to pursue these kinds of situations.

But then he also worries that parties are an invitation to excess.

So he imagines being invited to a large banquet and knowing that there's going to be a lot of food and drink there, rich food and copious amounts of alcohol.

And the question is, how do I navigate these two things?

And I think there's room for genuinely not knowing what the right answer is for him.

So I'll just say as one last aside,

When he introduces these kinds of examples in The Metaphysics of Morals, which is one of his major ethical works, he asks what he calls casuistical questions.

So on our topic, he says, for once I'm quoting here, "...can one at least justify, if not eulogize, a use of wine bordering on intoxication, since it enlivens the company's conversation and in so doing makes them speak more freely?"

And I think he's asking this as a genuine question.

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