What We Owe to Ourselves: Duties to Ourselves and What it Means to Violate Them

Published: May 8, 2020, 6 p.m.

In Part II of his Metaphysics of Morals (1797), philosopher Immanuel Kant discusses the duties that we have to ourselves. In this show, we focus on this section of Kant’s work and discuss whether the transgression of these duties should be regarded as self-humiliation or as something else.