...must be capable of being derived. The practical imperative will therefore be this : Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never as merely a means. 279 The principle, that humanity and every rational nature is an...

...is stated in the most emphatic and uncompromising manner. Kant's second maxim is, " Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never merely as a means." 1 Mill, thanks to his incomparable inconsistency, states the same...

...must be capable of being derived. The practical imperative will therefore be this : Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never as merely a means. The principle, that humanity and every rational nature is an end...

...above. maxim which thou canst at the same time will should be a universal law," ie " Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never as merely a means1." It is in this ethical connexion that Kant's most distinguished...

...above. maxim which thou canst at the same time will should be a universal law," ie " Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never as merely a means1." It is in this ethical connexion that Kant's most distinguished...

...putting it; and Kant merely repeated the same great ideal in his famous imperative : "Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never merely as a means." And the Founder of the Christian Religion proclaimed the same...

...universality. Kant's more fecund formula, Act so as to treat humanity, whether in thy own person or in that of another, always at the same time as an end and never merely as a means, has this character of fecundity only in so far as it gives a content to the universal;...

...attempt to organize social action in accord with the principle formulated by Kant: "Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never as a means." Obviously the moral problems set a community which endeavors to put the...

...forth and elaborated most analytically and most penetratingly by Immanuel Kant. " Act so as to use humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as and end, never as merely a means." This famous second formulation of the " categorical imperative...

...enunciation of the idea more generally and more positively stated in the Kantian maxim : " Act so as to use humanity whether in your own person or in the person of another, always as an end, never as a means," and as such it marks the beginning of a new epoch in social history....