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Author Dean, Richard

Title The value of humanity in Kant's moral theory / Richard Dean
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 270 pages)
Contents Introduction -- What should we treat as an end to itself? -- The good will reading meshes with major ideas of Kant's ethics -- The textual dispute, and arguments in favour of minimal readings -- Is the good will reading just too hard to swallow? -- The argument for humanity formula
Summary Richard Dean offers a sustained and systematic examination of the humanity formulation in Kant's ethics. He presents an original analysis of what it means to treat humanity as an end in itself and examines the implications, both for Kant scholarship and for practical guidance on specific moral issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 262-266) and index
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Subject Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 -- Ethics
SUBJECT Kant, Immanuel, 1724-1804 fast
Subject Ethics, Modern -- 18th century.
Humanity.
PHILOSOPHY -- Social.
PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy.
Ethics
Ethics, Modern
Humanity
Ethiek.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781435623576
1435623576
9780191603938
0191603937