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" Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end. "
Tradition and Modernity: Philosophical Reflections on the African Experience - Page 64
by Kwame Gyekye - 1997 - 360 pages
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Essays in Ancient Greek Philosophy IV: Aristotle's Ethics

John Peter Anton, George L. Kustas, Anthony Preus - Philosophy - 1971 - 294 pages
...of the categorical imperative which goes, "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end," would appear difficult to reconstruct from Aristotle's ethical...
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Anarchy, State, and Utopia

Robert Nozick - Political Science - 1974 - 388 pages
...means," rather than the one he actually used: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end." 4 Side constraints express the inviolability of other persons....
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Psychology of Ethics

John Morris Dorsey - Ethics - 1974 - 308 pages
...my Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative: Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an End.13 This maxim is ethical as far as it goes. I can never treat any...
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Research Involving Children

United States. National Commission for the Protection of Human Subjects of Biomedical and Behavioral Research - Children - 1977 - 630 pages
...formulation of the "categorical imperative" is: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end" (12:p.64). What Kant is saying is that a human being must always...
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Political Symbolism in Modern Europe: Essays in Honor of George L. Mosse ...

George Lachmann Mosse, Seymour Drescher, David Warren Sabean, Allan Sharlin - History - 334 pages
...of the Metaphysic of Morals that stated: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."6 Only with the assumption of this moral imperative, Cohen believed,...
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The Limits of Utilitarianism

Harlan B. Miller, William Hatton Williams - 315 pages
...universal law" (p. 70; also see p. 88); (2) "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end" (p. 96); (3) "A rational being must always regard himself as making...
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In the Spirit of Hegel

Robert C. Solomon - Philosophy - 1985 - 674 pages
...that it should become a universal law.88 and Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.89 The categorical imperative may thus be a unitary phenomenon of...
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Mutuality: The Vision of Martin Buber

Donald L. Berry - Philosophy - 1985 - 148 pages
...establish the possibility of moral knowledge. Act in such a way that you always treat humanity whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.58 Kaufmann correctly identifies one aspect of the formulation in...
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Ends and Principles in Kant’s Moral Thought

John E. Atwell - Philosophy - 1986 - 252 pages
...end-in-itself finds expression in that portion of the principle of humanity which instructs us: "Never treat humanity, in your own person or in the person of any other, merely as a means" (see Gr. 429 where the principle of humanity is fully stated). To violate this injunction...
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The Catholic Bishops and the U.S. Economy: A Debate

Douglas B. Rasmussen, James P. Sterba - Social Science - 142 pages
...Enlightenment, claimed that one should "act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."45 This claim has, of course, been subject to skepticism and confusion;...
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