... towards the role of sentiment. In An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals, Hume examines what gives oneself personal merit to determine the basis of morality. He explains that the foundation of moral judgment begins with social virtues like benevolence and justice. To exercise the sentiment of benevolence, Hume says that ... judgment was based on the role of reason. In Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals Kant goes through different philosophies on the topic of moral law beginning with the idea of logic. This idea explained how empirical could not be in logic philosophy because...

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... that makes suicide an undesirable experience. Aristotle wrote that "Now when a person kills himself in a fit of anger, he acts voluntarily in violation of right reason; and that the law does not permit. Consequently, he acts unjustly. But toward whom? Surely toward the state, not toward himself" (Aristotle: XI). Though we may not know it at the time, we ... , it goes against Kantian ethics, and the laws of nature. Kant argues that "to destroy the subject of morality in his own person is tantamount to obliterating from the world, as far as he can, the very existence of morality itself; bu...

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