The One Rule for Life
L’impératif kantien est un simple principe. Il ne fantasme pas l’avenir. Il ne regrette pas les atrocités du passé. Ici, personne n’est meilleur ou pire que les autres. Personne n’est plus vertueux. Tout ce qui compte, c’est de respecter et de protéger la volonté consciente. Point barre. Kant l’avait bien compris, dès qu’on entreprend de modeler l’
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Kant himself, in the second formulation of his categorical imperative, said that everything has its value, but man has his dignity – a human being should never become a means to an end. But already in the economic system of the last few decades, most working people had been turned into mere means, degraded to become mere tools for economic life. It
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His Formula of Humanity states that treating any human being (or any consciousness) as a means to some other end is the basis of all wrong behavior.