Means, Ends, and Persons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Means, Ends, and Persons write by Robert Audi. This book was released on 2016. Means, Ends, and Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a full-scale account of the morally important ideas of treating persons merely as means and treating them as ends. Audi clarifies these independently of Kant, but with implications for understanding him, and presents a theory of conduct that enhances their usefulness both in ethical theory and in practical ethics.
Means, Ends, and Persons
Means, Ends, and Persons - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Means, Ends, and Persons write by Robert Audi. This book was released on 2015. Means, Ends, and Persons available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Kant's injunction that we must treat persons as ends in themselves and never merely as means is plausible but often misunderstood. This book shows how the notions of treating persons as ends in themselves and, by contrast, merely as means, can be anchored outside Kant and clarified in ways that enhance their usefulness in ethical theory and in practical ethics, where they are often felt to have considerable intuitive force.
Ends and Principles in Kant’s Moral Thought
Ends and Principles in Kant’s Moral Thought - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ends and Principles in Kant’s Moral Thought write by John E. Atwell. This book was released on 2012-12-06. Ends and Principles in Kant’s Moral Thought available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) stands among the greatest thinkers of the Western world. There is hardly an area of thought, at least of philosophical thought, to which he did not make significant and lasting contributions. Particularly noteworthy are his writings on the foundations and limits of human knowledge, the bidimensional nature of perceptual or "natural" objects (including human beings), the basic principles and ends of morality, the character of a just society and of a world at peace, the movement and direction of human history, the nature of beauty, the end or purpose of all creation, the proper education of young people, the true conception of religion, and on and on. Though Kant was a life-long resident of Konigsberg, Prussia - child, student, tutor, and then professor of philosophy (and other subjects) - his thought ranged over nearly all the world and even beyond. Reports reveal that he (a bachelor) was an amiable man, highly respected by his students and colleagues, and even loved by his several close friends. He was apparently a man of integrity, both in his personal relations and in his pursuit of knowledge and truth. Despite his somewhat pessimistic attitude toward the moral progress of mankind - judging from past history and contemporary events - he never wavered from a deep-seated faith in the goodness of the human heart, in man's "splendid disposition toward the good.
The Ethics of Legal Coercion
The Ethics of Legal Coercion - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ethics of Legal Coercion write by J.D. Hodson. This book was released on 2012-12-06. The Ethics of Legal Coercion available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Are all of the commonly accepted aims of the use of law justifiable? Which kinds of behavior are justifiably prohibited, which kinds justifiably required? What uses of law are not defensible? How can the legitimacy or the ille gitimacy of various uses of law be explained or accounted for? These are questions the answering of which involves one in many issues of moral principle, for the answers require that one adopt positions - even if only implicitly - on further questions of what kinds of actions or policies are morally or ethically acceptable. The present work, aimed at questions of these kinds, is thus a study in the ethical evaluation of major uses of legal coercion. It is an attempt to provide a framework within which many questions about the proper uses of law may be fruitfully discussed. The framework, if successful, can be used by anyone asking questions about the defensibility of particular or general uses of law, whether from the perspective of someone considering whether to bring about some new legal provision, from the perspective of someone concerned to evaluate an eXisting provision, or from that of someone concerned more abstractly with questions about the appropriate substance of an ideal legal system. In addressing these and associated issues, I shall be exploring the extent to which an ethics based on respect for persons and their autonomy can handle satisfactorily the problems arising here.
Understanding Kant's Ethics
Understanding Kant's Ethics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Understanding Kant's Ethics write by Michael Cholbi. This book was released on 2016-11-17. Understanding Kant's Ethics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A systematic guide to Kant's ethical work and the debates surrounding it, accessible to students and specialists alike.
