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. Kant's ethics is as much an ethics of self-esteem as it is an ethics of duty. For Kant, then, worthy acts are (given human fallibility) a proper subset of right acts.
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