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Stop to Think #8
Stop to Think #8
The videos and primary texts are accompanied with a short description and often a question to guide your focus. Thinking of each of them is essential for understanding certain class material. In this assignment, you will respond to one of them by writing a concise, thorough paragraph (around 150 words).
In an excerpt from Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals (four applications of categorical imperative) by Immanuel Kant, you can learn that Kant has an absolutist position on prohibiting suicide. Given his maxim that if everyone committed suicide it would not be beneficial for humanity, what do you think about his absolutist position? Is suicide an action that is morally and socially universally prohibitive?