Ethics and Values / Unit 5 Ethics 213 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dignity and Price
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The idea
In Kant's terms, whatever has a price can be replaced by an equivalent; persons have dignity, a worth beyond all price, and cannot.
In practice
An insurer can price the totaled car to the dollar. The daughter who died in it broke the scale — and the difference is the theory.
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