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Means, Ends, and Persons - The Meaning and Psychological Dimensions of Kant's Humanity Formula (Paperback)
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Means, Ends, and Persons - The Meaning and Psychological Dimensions of Kant's Humanity Formula (Paperback)
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No one wants to be treated merely as a means-"used," in a sense.
But just what is this repugnant treatment? Audi's point of
departure is Kant's famous principle that we must treat persons as
ends in themselves and never merely as means. Treatment of these
kinds is conduct, a complex three-dimensional notion whose central
elements are action, its motivation, and the manner of its
performance. He shows how the notions of treating persons as ends
and, by contrast, merely as means, can be anchored outside Kant and
clarified in ways that enhance their usefulness both in ethical
theory and in practical ethics, where they have much intuitive
force. Audi constructs an account of treatment of persons-of what
it is, how it differs from mere interpersonal action, and what
ethical standards govern it. In accounting for such treatment, the
book develops a wider conception of ethics than is commonly
implicit in utilitarian, deontological, or virtue theories. These
results contribute to ethical theory, but in its discussion of
diverse narrative examples of moral and immoral conduct, the book
also contributes to normative ethics. Audi's theory of conduct
takes account of motivational elements that are not traits of
character and of behavioral elements that are not manifestations of
virtue or vice. Here it goes beyond the leading virtue approaches.
The theory also advances rule ethics by framing wider conception of
moral behavior-roughly, of acting morally. The results advance both
normative ethics and ethical theory. For moral philosophy, the book
frames conceptions, articulates distinctions, and formulates
principles; and for practical ethics, it provides a multitude of
cases that illustrate both the scope of moral responsibility and
the normative standards for living up to it.
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