Persons as Ends
Kant
The Persons as Ends formulation:
Act in such a way that you treat humanity whether in your own person or in
the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply
as a means. (P 429b, different translation)
- Means
- Treating someone as a means
- Ends
- Persons as ends
- Treating someone as an end
- Treating someone simply as means
- Treating yourself as an end
- What this formulation of the categorical imperative says we must
not do
- What this formulation of the categorical imperative says we
must do
Richard Lee,
rlee@comp.uark.edu,
last modified: 3 March 1999