Kant Moral Theory re Humanity

Should you think about your duty, or about the consequences of your actions? Or should you concentrate on becoming a good person?

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Veritas Aequitas
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Kant Moral Theory re Humanity

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The ONE RULE for LIFE - Immanuel Kant's Moral Philosophy
by Mark Manson - in pictorial form
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nz0iaNvVpE

One of the Rule for Life is this;
Kant expresses the principle of humanity (PH) as follows:

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 toward themselves and each other, so it is a principle that should describe the conduct of human (i.e., finite rational) beings toward themselves and each other.
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.10 ... 9-4345-2_6
Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804) was a German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers. Born in Königsberg, Kant's comprehensive and systematic works in epistemology, metaphysics, ethics, and aesthetics have made him one of the most influential and controversial figures in modern Western philosophy, being called the
"father of modern ethics",
"father of modern aesthetics" and, by bringing together rationalism and empiricism, the
"father of modern philosophy".
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