Giving myself a law nietzsche, self-respect, and the problem with kant's universalism
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2018-08-01Journal Title
Iride
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1122-7893
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Il Mulino publishing house
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31
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84
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Bennett, M. (2018). Giving myself a law nietzsche, self-respect, and the problem with kant's universalism. Iride, 31 (84) https://doi.org/10.1414/91133
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© 2018 Societa Editrice il Mulino. All Rights Reserved. This paper offers a new interpretation of Nietzsche's criticisms of Kant's account of freedom and renders these criticisms in such a way as to pose a serious challenge to Kantian ethics. My first aim is to explain Nietzsche's challenge to the principle that being free means acting as a free agent ought to act, which I call Kant's universalism. My second aim is to show that Kant's accounts of selfrespect is a particularly unconvincing account of how we can make room for virtues within a universalistic framework, and thereby persuade the Kantian that there is something wrong with the underlying universalism principle.
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