Thursday, May 27, 2010

reflections on kant

act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other,

never merely as a means to an end,
- fidelity
- veracity
- justice

but always at the same time as an end.
- autonomy
- beneficence
- non-malevolence

our hallowed pillars in a nice neat nutshell, kant's major handicap being the extremely convoluted manner in which he presents his ideas.

references:
a simplified version of kant's ethics: perplexities of famine and world hunger, onora o'neill.
kant's categorical imperative, second formulation.

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