Kant Humanity as an End in Itself Explained
Kant seems to shift from valuing the good will to simply valuing rational nature as such. This brings up a conundrum. 8 6 Categorical Imperative And Justice As Fairness K12 Libretexts An end in itself is an objective end meaning that it can be held by all rational beings because it is determined by reason alone. . Immanuel Kants views as elucidated in his book Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals are based on the belief that people count by prohibiting actions which. But in his discussion of the formula of humanity Kant claims that rational nature or the human being and in general every rational being exists as an end in itself 4428. Tom Hill who compiled a section in The Oxford Handbook of Ethical Theory suggests that Kant had a formula for humanity which proposed that humanity is treated in such a way that can become an end-in-itself Hill 489 In other words humanity can become so self-absorbed to the point of being an end-in-itself. ...