PHL100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Utopia, Consequentialism
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A. using manipulation and using the person as a means 9not respect for person to know the truth or understand the truth), not respecting as an autonomous human being. Kingdom of ends a society in which evening treats everyone else as a rational being everyone is free, strong, autonomous no need to tell a protective, paternalistic lie. It is not enough that the action does not violate humanity in our own person as an end in itself, it must also harmonize with it hierarchy of talents, duality of higher vs. lower. Harmonize - we have potential things we could work on a develop but some are better than others. True self - self as a rational being. What is my real self? ( not easy to answer) Descartes my centre of consciousness (as a thinking being but no reference to the content of the thoughts)
