Was Immanuel Kant correct to say that we should always treat rational beings as ends in themselves?
Several readings should be used but the following readings must be included/used:
1) Peter Singer (1993) A Companion to Ethics. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell (Blackwell Companions to Philosophy)
Chapter 14 ‘Kantian Ethics’ by Onara O’Neill
Chapter 17 ‘Contemporary Deontology’
2) Stern, R. (2015) Kantian ethics value, agency, and obligation /. New York : Oxford University Press,.
3) Parfit, D 2014, On What Matters : Volume One, Oxford University Press, Oxford. Available from: ProQuest Ebook Central. [4 March 2024]. CH 9 ‘Merely as a Means’
4) Shafer-Landau, R (ed.) 2012, Ethical Theory : An Anthology, John
Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, Somerset.
5) Sullivan, R. J. (1994), An Introduction to Kant’s Ethics, Cambridge University Press
CH 55 Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant (2012) pg 485-498
