Sentences with phrase «treated as the means to an end»

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.

The man at the heart of Snowden, though, remains a cryptic messenger whose personal story is here treated as the means to an end.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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 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).

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.

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.

If internal relations are based upon subject - object interaction only, then Whiteheadians have not really overcome a dualism which may be used to justify treating others as means rather than ends.

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.

The emergence, in the course of history, of the ability to think of the other as another subject and to appreciate the moral demand that this lays upon one — to treat the other as an end and not only as a means — is an achievement of civilization that most of us are not willing to abandon.

Accordingly, they have treated these other creatures only as means to their ends.

The first ethical principle is that we should treat subjects as ends in themselves and not merely as means to our own ends.

Finch and Reese both treat the Machine as a means to an end, regarding it with a good dose of suspicion and dread due to its power.

Her concern is, that in their desire for making converts, people on short - term missions often treat local people merely as means to an end rather than as ends in themselves.

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

I read somewhere that some said we're not clinical enough that is a culture at wenger has become too friendly with the players at Arsenal the players position are seldom under treat you play poorly for two weeks and you still make the team you missed a look at almunia retrospectively don't understand that hey if i get a chance to score i must take it the first time cause i may not get a next one and you want the players to be clinical it must start from the top good work or none As was said on a website to day Arsenal should parade through the streets of london in an open top Bus at the end of the season the accountants of the club and i will through wenger in there too cause to most of you he can do no wrong I love this club with all my heart and i can support no other club in football but to see for 5 seasons we can't show any vast improvement and keep making the same mistakes every year is hard to swallow it makes me sick but as wenger says judge me at the end i wonder what end he meant the end of the season or the end of his contract GO ARSENAL....................As was said on a website to day Arsenal should parade through the streets of london in an open top Bus at the end of the season the accountants of the club and i will through wenger in there too cause to most of you he can do no wrong I love this club with all my heart and i can support no other club in football but to see for 5 seasons we can't show any vast improvement and keep making the same mistakes every year is hard to swallow it makes me sick but as wenger says judge me at the end i wonder what end he meant the end of the season or the end of his contract GO ARSENAL....................as wenger says judge me at the end i wonder what end he meant the end of the season or the end of his contract GO ARSENAL......................

So even though the end result is that you want your child to function in society as an adult some day, that doesn't mean that you treat every child the same way.

I therefore reject the view held by Joseph Spoerl (Professor of Philosophy at St. Anselm College), who has argued that choosing to conceive a child is to treat the future child as a means to the parents» ends, since the child does not yet exist and therefore can not be benefitted by the choice.

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They treat online dating as an end in and of itself, rather than a means to a stable, loving long term relationship.

Dayton and Faris handle their burgeoning relationship, including a sex scene, free of exploitation or voyeurism, instead focusing on their growing emotional intimacy, an intimacy Jack — the odd man out who's treated with sensitivity and empathy — watches from a distance, acknowledging their relationship initially as «just a phase,» before painfully accepting that Billie's ultimate happiness means an end to their marriage.

When learning is treated more as a means to an end than an end in itself (for example, learning in order to get a job rather than learning to do a job), short - term perspectives and artificial endpoints to learning can be created, often encouraging cramming and learning - to - forget.

To the extent the objective is sufficient diversity so that students see fellow students as individuals rather than solely as members of a racial group, using means that treat students solely as members of a racial group is fundamentally at cross-purposes with that end.

At the end of 25 years, the remaining balance forgiven will be treated as income, meaning that you will have to pay income tax on the remaining balance.

If lower - paid employees do not contribute to a 401 (k) plan in sufficient numbers, for example, higher - paid employees can have part of their contributions returned at year - end, meaning it will be treated as taxable compensation.

However before we let our excitement get away with us, this is no guarantee of a release, as Activision did previously state the game was to be an exclusive to PlayStation 4, but it wouldn't be the first time a game was meant to be an exclusive, before being brought to other platforms, but for today, let's treat this news as the rumour it is and wait for proper confirmation because if it is true, we should definitely hear something about it before 2017 ends.

Kant's ethics, after all, are partly based on the idea that a being who can think logically (and therefor linguistically) should not be treated merely as a means to an end.

The best analogy to prefab houses is the Mini Cooper — mass produced but with enough options to let the owners feel they have a custom automobile...» Michael Pyatok, FAIA Pyatok Architects Berkeley, Calif.»... As long as housing is treated as a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perceptioAs long as housing is treated as a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perceptioas housing is treated as a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perceptioas a commodity in a capitalist system, the technological advances that occur more often help the production end rather than the consumer end, and when they help both, it usually means a portion of the labor market somewhere has been hurt...» Mark Simon, FAIA Centerbrook Architects and Planners Essex, Conn. «This is an issue of class and perception.

The court will have to weigh up the public interest in ensuring that those charged with crimes should be tried, as against the competing public interest in maintaining confidence in the criminal justice system, and not giving the impression that the end will always be treated as justifying any means.

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.

The belief in the irreducible value of personhood has been credited separately to both our Judaeo - Christian heritage and the more secular philosophy of Immanuel Kant, although it most probably a product of both and best expressed through Kant's categorical imperative to: «treat people as an end in themselves and never as a means to an end.»

More broadly, you don't address my larger policy argument, which is that patents are a means to an end — promoting innovation — and not, as the Federal Circuit has treated them, as an end in themselves.