Thomas E. Hill Jr on the Basis of Human Dignity
Animal Ethics
MARCH 12, 2009
That is, he not only conforms to the principles that he freely adopted but does so because they are principles that he freely and rationally adopted. For Kant, then, worthy acts are (given human fallibility) a proper subset of right acts. President Bush's invasion of Iraq could have been right (i.e., not from duty ).
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