 | John Watson - Ethics - 1908 - 536 pages
...beings united by common laws. The law of a rational being is to treat himself and other rational beings never merely as a means but always at the same time as an end. /'This is the basis of that system or community of rational beings, united under common objective laws,... | |
 | Paul Carus - Electronic journals - 1910 - 702 pages
...own person as well as in the person of every one else, you always employ human nature never simply as a means but always at the same time as an end." "Man is, to be sure, sufficiently unholy," says Kant elsewhere,2 "but human nature in his person must... | |
 | John Peter Anton, George L. Kustas, Anthony Preus - Philosophy - 1971 - 294 pages
...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 principles.3 Furthermore, there is considerable... | |
 | Moshe Kroy - Philosophy - 1974 - 260 pages
...way that you never treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end." This formulation is much less clear than the first. We will interpret it, however, as follows: to consider... | |
 | Robert Nozick - Political Science - 1974 - 388 pages
...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. But why may not one violate persons... | |
 | Harlan B. Miller, William Hatton Williams - 315 pages
...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 laws in a kingdom of ends ..."... | |
 | John E. Atwell - Philosophy - 1986 - 252 pages
..."Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means, but always at the same time as an end" (Gr. 429).' It is a principle, Kant holds, that would describe the conduct of fully rational beings... | |
 | Avner Cohen, Steven Lee, Steven P. Lee - History - 1986 - 514 pages
...that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end." For Kant the essence of the moral lies in respecting human dignity quite apart from self-interest.... | |
 | Raymond J. Apthorpe, András Kráhl - Business & Economics - 1986 - 276 pages
...religious beliefs). The argument is a reworking of Kant's call to 'always treat humanity. . . never simply as a means but always at the same time as an end' (Ibidem: 32; my emphases). Nozick contrives to read this as a principle not simply of individual worth,... | |
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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. 
