Oct 16, 2018
The Nature of Indefinite Life Extension in Context of Immanuel Kant’s Insights on Ethics and Duty
Posted by Eric Schulke in categories: ethics, futurism, life extension, philosophy
Is working to pioneer the full scope of everything that exists a duty? I have been contemplating aspects of that question for some years now. Here I move in the direction of articulating its nature and making the case by drawing out correlations with life extension and Immanuel Kant’s thoughts in The Metaphysical Elements of Ethics.
“IV. What are the Ends which are also Duties? They are: A. Our own perfection, B. Happiness of others.”
His notion of “categorical imperative” is that of a universally applicable, non-contradictory, absolute necessity which everyone can use pure practical reason to understand without it needing to be experienced or taught to them.
He says that “ethics may also be defined as the system of the ends of the pure practical reason.”