Sentences with phrase «treated as ends»

[3] As a consequence, the Election Day errors that Wresnewskyj claimed had cost him his job were insufficient to invalidate the result: «The procedural safeguards in the [Canada Elections Act] are important,» the Court noted, «however, they should not be treated as ends in themselves.»

Most of the time, test scores are treated as ends in themselves, as if they can stand alone as clear indicators of school quality and health.

Human beings are to be treated as ends, never only as means.

Babies made by reproductive technology must be treated as ends in themselves and not merely as means for fulfilling social or parental values.

Nature, social relations and personal feelings could now be treated as ends rather than means, could be liberated from the repressive control of technical reason

This reminds me of Kant's idea that «people should be treated as ends in themselves rather than a means to an end» — the basis of his ideas of personhood, dignity and human rights.

The principle that the individual is to be treated as an end, and never merely as a means to some other end, can not possibly rule the life of any society.

The sophisms of the substantiality of the «I» even today retain a particular luster, along with the Nietzschean and Freudian critiques of the subject; it is not without importance to find the root and philosophical meaning of them in the Kantian dialectic; this latter has condemned in advance any claim to dogmatize on personal existence and knowledge of the person; the person is manifested only in the practical act of treating it as an end and not merely as a means.

If our redescriptions of the world of everyday life under the sign of the Resurrection have helped to fuel this desire for goodness and happiness in this life, if they have helped us formulate, with Kant, the notion of a human society understood as a «Kingdom of ends» (in which each human being, including oneself, is treated as an end in him or herself), we find that the effort to realize such hopes requires us to «postulate» realities which we can not «know»: freedom, immortality, God.

Don't read essays like this and treat them as an end.

Each must he treated as an end, not solely as a means.

Journalists are used to being treated as means to an end, so treating them as ends in themselves will, after the initial shock and wariness fades, prove to be a very constructive approach.

It is recognised that discrimination falls, respectively, into the absolute and the relative categories explained by Lord Hoffmann in R (Carson) v Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and another [2005] UKHL 37: «Article 14 expresses the Enlightenment value that every human being is entitled to equal respect and to be treated as an end and not a means.

However, even with security tokens, this shouldn't be treated as the end of utility tokens.

Not exact matches

Trump has made it clear he plans to treat the press with the same kind of disdain and even outright animosity he showed during the campaign, and will likely continue to do an end - run around them as much as possible using Twitter (twtr) and other social platforms.

Meridian had to issue a recall of the EpiPen and EpiPen Jr. auto - injectors at the end of March as some of the devices, which are used for treating allergic reactions, had a defective part that potentially stopped them from working — an event that could be life - threatening.

In the end, the Fed should stop treating the unemployment rate as an indicator of whether we need more stimulus.

TopCoder treats the forum as both a customer service channel and a never - ending focus group.

You may treat as ordinary loss any excess of the adjusted basis of the stock over its fair market value at the end of the year, but only to the extent of the net amount previously included in income as a result of the election in prior years.

Specifically, they calculate an aggregate internal rate of return (dollar - weighted return) that treats funds as time - ordered investor capital flows, with initial fund market value and fund inflows counted as negative flows and fund outflows and ending market value counted as positive flows.

Most discussions treat such a strategy as being entirely a matter of setting a schedule, like those the FOMC has toyed with since 2010, for ending or limiting Fed re-investments of maturing securities and dividends, and (in more aggressive plans) for outright security sales.

[5] Robert Shiller, the economist who successfully predicted the popping of the Dot - com and U.S. housing bubbles, warned investors against treating Sweden and Norway's markets as safe - havens as the Nordic region is caught up in asset bubbles that will end with plunging asset prices.

Each month's bill is treated as if it were a single loan transaction to be paid in full at month's end, while the next month constitutes a new transaction.

I quite often treat this blog like a diary, so sometimes I'll stray away from talking about my personal finance and share my current thoughts, I'll be excited to go back and read some old post when the years go by, and it will help me reflect on the overall journey that has been experienced, because as great as the end goal of early retirement is, I would imagine the character developed through such a process has more then just monetary value.

However, dividends are treated differently: If you hold the stock for at least 60 days during the 121 - day period that begins 60 days before the ex-dividend date and ends 60 days after the ex-dividend date, your dividend counts as long - term capital gains.

That's because they're run for two purposes, both of which treat students as means, not ends in themselves.

A popular one these days is to treat conscious will as an illusion — we think that we have acted deliberately toward some end, but in fact our brain acted on its own and then deceived us into thinking that we acted deliberately.

People have idealized the human body, treated it as a temple, a purity, and that mystification must end.

Again, what was publicly proclaimed as an end to suffering became a matter of termination of people whose physical or psychological suffering was not correctly palliated or treated.

They have a chance to see (and to treat) their fellow humans as ends rather than means.

Kant's second form of the categorical imperative states that we should always treat persons as ends in themselves never merely as means to our ends.

At the other end of the spectrum, one might treat phrases like «equal protection» and «free speech» as an invitation to judges to fashion whatever rules best serve the general values that the phrases suggest: equality, free expression, and so forth.

It is so obvious that: a) those held in slavery were human beings (a biological category); b) all humans are by nature persons (a philosophic category), that is, beings with inviolable worth that ought never be treated as means to an end; and c) the evil practice of slavery was not a private matter - the whole community is harmed because we are all communal beings by nature, in solidarity with those who are treated unjustly.

There is no way I would again attend a church that does not, in practice, treat women as peer - humans, and the Emergence movement as ended my long search for it.

This woman, who is not of the house of Israel, is treated in the end as one of its children because of her faith.

This death involves cutting off desires for the world that slowly cause the person to treat the temporal as though it is the end.

The end point should not be forgotten and that is that opposition to homosexuality («homophobia») will be treated as a social evil.

The book treats of the signs that will accompany the end of the world, the Anti-Christ, the resurrection of the dead, the judgment, the state of our glorified bodies, eternal beatitude, as well as more stern topics such as the pains of purgatory and the fate of the damned.

He was a Zionist who treated Jewish sovereignty in Israel as a means rather than an end.

The categorical imperative to «treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46) was, for Kant, the «universal law of nature» (38) and his understanding of it is the most radical conception of natural law in its modern sense.

On Apel's account, these rights articulate the valid meaning that can be given to the second formulation of Kant's categorical imperative: «So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only» (46).

Those who read it do so casually, congregations wait for it to end, homilists treat it as occasionally useful thought - starters.

Once early embryos become something less than incipient human life, once they are treated in vitro as a means toward the end of pregnancy, once they are cryopreserved in thousands of vats across the country, ESCR with «excess» embryos may be predictably the next step.

In his «loose ends» chapter Macquarrie addresses the role the rise of National Socialism played in Heidegger's thought and, as I have said, treats it all too cursorily.

Kant's categorical imperatives, «Act always on such a maxim as thou canst at the same time will to be a universal law» and «So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only,» are actually in one sense imposed from without.

Thus there is very little disagreement with Kant's famous dictum: «So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as a means only.»

Philosopher Immanuel Kant argued that it is always wrong to treat a person or a people purely as a means to an end.

Brushing aside both just - war theorists and pacifists, Bowman says that if we were honest, we would admit that all wars in the end are matters of honor (not morality) and ought to be treated as such.

All of these world views and the syncretistic Christian combination of them had long been peppered with pithy slogans, golden rules, words of wisdom, etc., which range from Socrates» Know thyself to Christ's If you lose the world, you gain it and on to Nothing in excess and Treat every human as an end in itself.

The development of such a comprehensive view has long been a need, for it has become clearer and clearer as we have become familiar and involved with a constantly widening horizon of different musical aims and practices, that the old «common practice» theories of harmony and counterpoint could no longer be overhauled or extended, but had by necessity to be replaced by a way of description and analysis that treated the «common practice» of Western music from the late seventeenth to the end of the nineteenth centuries as only one instance of a much wider musical method and practice that could be applied to all of Western music, from its origins to the present, as well as to music of other cultures.»