Moral security of the self and other: Review of Floyd,The Duty to Secure

Abstract

Immanuel Kant defines existence – in this article comprehended as the security of Self – as practical and objective rationality, as a category guided by a priori principles that metaphysically employ a categorical imperative to all humans. Friedrich Nietzsche defines existence as a dynamic, artistic process of creation, which can be shaped by a will to power to either overcome or exercise influence. Georg W. F. Hegel defines existence neither as Being nor as Non-Being, but as a continuous process of Becoming. Beyond binaries of to be or not to be, the question arises how can agency be created to maintain security of Self and Others and, utmost importantly, is there a moral duty for it? “The duty of other-securitization, as indeed the duty of self-securitization,” Floyd argues, “rests on a prior duty of politicization.”