Answer to Question #111729 in Philosophy for lia

Question

Kant insists that we have duties to ourselves. Explain how he justifies this claim. Do you agree with it?

Answer 1

Duties are rules or laws of some sort combined with some sort of felt constraint or incentive on our choices, whether from external coercion by others or from our own powers of reason. According to Kant, we have moral obligations to our self since duty to oneself is duty to other people.