Saunders, Joe and Slater, Joe and Sticker, Martin (2025) Kant and overdemandingness II: the demandingness of perfect duties. Philosophy Compass, 20 (4): e70033. ISSN 1747-9991
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The paper examines how demandingness objections relate to perfect duties in Kantian ethics. The authors revisit their previous framework on demandingness and introduce three cases that challenge the Kantian framework.AI Topics:
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In this paper, we consider how demandingness objections pertain to perfect duties in Kantian ethics. We revisit the framework of demandingness that we introduced in a previous paper, before introducing three cases that have been suggested to constitute problems for Kant, specifically regarding perfect duties. We argue that some of these cases do constitute problems for the Kantian framework, but the complaint of overdemandingness obfuscates other issues. In particular, we suggest that Kantian ethics may benefit from a theory of goods. However, we observe that supplementing Kantian ethics in this way may yield a number of further difficulties.
Title | Kant and overdemandingness II: the demandingness of perfect duties |
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Creators | Saunders, Joe and Slater, Joe and Sticker, Martin |
Identification Number | 10.1111/phc3.70033 |
Date | April 2025 |
Divisions | College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Philosophy |
Publisher | Wiley |
Additional Information | Work on this project was supported by joint funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council [grant number AH/X002365/1] and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [project number 508354046] for the project: “Using People Well, Treating People Badly: Towards a Kantian Realm of Ends and Means”. |
URI | https://pub.demo35.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/33 |
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Item Type | Article |
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Depositing User | Unnamed user with email ejo1f20@soton.ac.uk |
SWORD Depositor | Users 37347 not found. |
Date Deposited | 11 Jun 2025 16:34 |
Revision | 15 |
Last Modified | 12 Jun 2025 12:26 |
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