ABSTRACT

I suggest that the Kantian categorical imperative can be a basis for an ethical duty to live sustainably. The universalizability formulation of the categorical imperative should be seen as a test of whether the principle underlying a way of life is self-destructive of the system of living and acting which makes the way of life possible. In exploring this interpretation the self should be conceptualized as a socially and system-constituted being, rather than an atomized will. In this sense, a self which lives in a way that is destructive of the system of life, is also in principle willing its own self-destruction.

中文翻译：

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关于可持续发展的个人责任的康德视角

摘要

我建议康德的绝对命令可以成为可持续生活的道德义务的基础。绝对命令的普遍化表述应被视为一种检验，即一种生活方式背后的原则是否是使生活方式成为可能的生活和行为系统的自毁性。在探索这种解释时，自我应该被概念化为一个社会和系统构成的存在，而不是一个原子化的意志。从这个意义上说，一个以破坏生命系统的方式生活的自我，原则上也愿意自我毁灭。