Moral duties to past-selves
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10344330 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Agnès Baehni (0000-0002-7605-9346, University of Geneva), Vincent Grandjean (0000-0003-2383-8546, University of Neuchâtel) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Publication date | 2025-06-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/pq/pqaf053 |
| OpenAlex | W4411713319 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 33 |
This paper offers a positive account of moral duties to past-selves, based on two plausible beliefs, (1) we have moral duties toward persons who are no longer present; and (2) we have moral duties toward ourselves. Specifically, our inquiry centers on moral duties toward our past-selves. We begin by addressing various objections challenging the viability of such duties and subsequently present three arguments supporting their plausibility. These arguments draw from hypothetical time-travel scenarios and the arbitrary exclusion of past-selves from the moral framework. In conclusion, we argue that recognizing moral duties to our past-selves is paradoxically crucial for combating moral egocentrism in its temporal dimension
Aesthetics · Epistemology · Psychoanalysis · Sociology · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Theology and Philosophy of Evil
The Moral Demands of Memory
Servility and Self-Respect
The psychology of sunk cost
Our Obligation to the Dead
Autonomy and Self-Respect
On Duties to Oneself
Duty to Self
The Significance of the Past
Blaming the dead
What We Owe Past Selves
The Paradox of Duties to Oneself
Duties to Oneself and Their Alleged Incoherence
The Deferential Wife Revisited
Symmetric and asymmetric theories of time
Meaningfulness and Time
Prudence and past selves
L'invention du « devoir de mémoire
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |