Ethics and Values / Unit 5 Ethics 211 short lesson, about 20 seconds
The Humanity Formulation
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The idea
Kant's humanity formulation: treat humanity, in your own person and in everyone else's, never merely as a means but always at the same time as an end.
In practice
Asked why the scam is wrong even when the mark never finds out, the formulation answers: a person was made into an instrument.
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