A Contractualist Reading of Kant's Proof of the Formula of Humanity
Kantian Review 18 (3):363-386 (2013)
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Kant offers the following argument for the formula of humanity (FH): Each rational agent necessarily conceives of her own rational nature as an end in itself and does so on the same grounds as every other rational agent, so all rational agents must conceive of one another's rational nature as an end in itself. As it stands, the argument appears to be question-begging and fallacious. Drawing on resources from the formula of universal law (FUL) and Kant's claims about the primacy of duties to oneself, I propose a contractualist reconstruction of this puzzling line of reasoning
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| Keywords | Formula of humanity dignity respect self-respect contractualism duties to oneself formula of universal law |
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| DOI | 10.1017/S1369415413000150 |
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