2020, the year of the plague

considerations on vaccination, according to Kant

Authors

  • Delamar José Volpato Dutra Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2021.v9n1.p185

Keywords:

Kant, vaccination, science

Abstract

In his TL, Kant raises the question of whether vaccination violates the perfect duty not to commit suicide. The text presents the commentators’ arguments for an affirmative or negative answer to the question posed by Kant. The hypothesis of this article is that the terms in which Kant presented the problem allow his argument to be reconstructed, in view of the scientific evolution of vaccines in terms of efficacy and safety, in such a way that one could give a positive answer to the question formulated by him.

Author Biography

  • Delamar José Volpato Dutra, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina - UFSC

    Graduado em Filosofia e em Direito [UFSC], doutor em Filosofia pela UFRGS, com estágio de doutorado na Université Catholique de Louvain, Bélgica. Fez pósdoutorado na Columbia University (New York) sobre a relação entre Dworkin e Habermas. Fez também pós-doutorado na Aberystwyth University (País de Gales, Reino Unido) sobre o tema “Habermas’s Critique of Kant and Hobbes”. É professor titular de Filosofia. É pesquisador do CNPq desde 1999

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Published

2021-07-10

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2021)

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2020, the year of the plague: considerations on vaccination, according to Kant. (2021). Kantian Studies (EK), 9(1), 185. https://doi.org/10.36311/2318-0501.2021.v9n1.p185