...that, in your 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...

...the law, Kant thinks that it can be translated into a new and more concrete form : "So act that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end never as a means" — never use a person as a tool. This moral will of man...

...of the principle of respect for persons, the formulation of the categorical imperative which goes, "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity,...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...

..."So act as to minimize the use of humanity simply as a means," rather than the one he actually used: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity,...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...

...fellowman-concept. Such is my interpretation of the doctrine of my Immanuel Kant's Categorical Imperative: Act in such a way that you always treat humanity,...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 humanity other than my own, whether...

...to A5 . The second version of the imperative reads [98, p. 96] : "Act in such a 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...

...principle can be stated in a variety of ways. Kant's second formulation of the "categorical imperative" is: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity,...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 be treated as a human being. I think...

...way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law" (p. 70; also see p. 88); (2) "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity,...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 ..."...

...formulation of the categorical imperative from the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals that stated: "Act in such a way that you always treat humanity,...simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."6 Only with the assumption of this moral imperative, Cohen believed, could men become members...

...unhappy comment in No Exit: INEZ Suppose I be your looking-glass?. . . Am I not better than your mirror? Act in such a way that you always treat humanity, whether in your own person or any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.55 Fichte, following Kant,...