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A Right of Self-Termination?
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TL;DR: For instance, the authors remember hearing a fellow philosopher expound, with a wave of his cigarette, on his right to choose whether to live and die smoking, or to quit and merely survive.
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Abstract: Getting cancer changed my feelings about people who smoke. I remember hearing a fellow philosopher expound, with a wave of his cigarette, on his right to choose whether to live and die smoking, or to quit and merely survive. I was just beginning a year of chemotherapy, and mere survival sounded pretty good to me. But I was the visiting speaker, and my hosts were unaware of my diagnosis. Several of them lit up after dinner as we listened to their colleague’s disquisition—they with amused familiarity, I with an outrage that surprised even me and would have baffled them, if I had dared to express it. That I didn’t dare is a cause for regret even now, ten years after the fact.
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IV—The Voice of Conscience
J. David Velleman
- 01 Jun 1999
TL;DR: The authors reconstructs Kant's derivation of the categorical imperative as an argument that deduces what the voice of conscience must say from how it must sound-that is, from the authority that is metaphorically attributed to conscience in the form of a resounding voice.