malenoid@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Dec 8, 8:43 pm, JoeC <nc...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> I have read some of Critique of Pure Reason and Perpetual Peace. Here
>> is a good link if you want to learn about philosophy:
>>
>>
http://www.amazon.com/Immanuel-Kant-Knowledge-Products-Philosophy/dp/...
>>
>> I do like many of Kant's ideas that of people are ends never means. I
>> also like his ideas on reason. They have had an effect on me because I
>> never liked Utilitarian morality. I basically see it as selfish. I
>> would like to find any thinking person that posts to the news world to
>> discuss interesting topics.
>
> Ah, no, Kant did not write that people are never means, he wrote that
> humanity, in
> oneself and in others, should be treated NOT ONLY as means but also as
> an end in
> itself.
I think is about wording people in Kant's morality are never means only
ends in themselves as you said. Using people as means it immoral in
Kant's world.
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