Publication Type |
honors thesis |
School or College |
College of Social & Behavioral Science |
Department |
Political Science |
Faculty Mentor |
Mark Button |
Creator |
Rush, Jacob |
Title |
The Kantian concept of the person, rationality and Socrates' death |
Year graduated |
2014 |
Date |
2014-05 |
Description |
In this paper, I consider Socrates' death sentence in The Apology and his choice to accept his death sentence in The Crito. I structure his choice in a Kantian manner. First, I argue that Socrates has a duty to himself, as a rational agent, to (a) act as a promisekeeping individual and (b) perform the means indispensable to ends he sets for himself, that is, to his own just agreements. Socrates' prior choices commit Socrates to death. I then argue that Socrates has a duty not to flee his unjust verdict on the grounds that doing so would be self-contradictory if enacted by all rational agents at once. It would not accord with the categorical imperative. |
Type |
Text |
Publisher |
University of Utah |
Subject |
Socrates - Death and burial; Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1824 - Ethics |
Language |
eng |
Rights Management |
(c) Jacob Rush |
Format Medium |
application/pdf |
Format Extent |
229,413 bytes |
Permissions Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/details?id=1297201 |
ARK |
ark:/87278/s6dr64rm |
Setname |
ir_htoa |
ID |
205932 |
Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6dr64rm |