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Kant on Human Dignity (Hardcover)
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Kant on Human Dignity (Hardcover)
Series: Kantstudien-Erganzungshefte
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Immanuel Kant is often considered to be the source of the
contemporary idea of human dignity, but his conception of human
dignity and its relation to human value and to the requirement to
respect others have not been widely understood. Kant on Human
Dignity offers the first in-depth study in English of this subject.
Based on a comprehensive analysis of all the passages in which Kant
uses the term 'dignity', as well as an analysis of the most
prominent arguments for a value of human beings in the Kant
literature, the book carefully examines different ways of
construing the relationship between dignity, value and respect for
others. It takes seriously Kant's Copernican Revolution in moral
philosophy: Kant argues that moral imperatives cannot be based on
any values without yielding heteronomy. Instead it is imperatives
of reason that determine what is valuable. The requirement to
respect all human beings is one such imperative. Respect for human
beings does not follow from human dignity-for this would violate
autonomy-but is an unconditional command of reason. Following this
train of thought yields a unified account of Kant's moral
philosophy.
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