TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2016//
TI  - No King and No Torture: Kant on Suicide and Law
JO  - Kantian Review
A1  - Uleman, J.
SP  - 77
EP  - 100
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
N2  - Kant's most canonical argument against suicide, the universal law argument, is widely dismissed. This paper attempts to save it, showing that a suicide maxim, universalized, undermines all bases for practical law, resisting both the non-negotiable value of free rational willing and the ordinary array of sensuous commitments that inform prudential incentives. Suicide therefore undermines moral law-governed community as a whole, threatening 'savage disorder'. In pursuing this argument, I propose a non-teleological and non-theoretical nature - a 'practical nature' or moral law governed whole - the realization of which morality demands. © 2016 Kantian Review.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 1369-4154
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S136941541500031X
ID  - ref1
ER  -