PHIL 322 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Living Wage, Categorical Imperative

• School: University of Arizona
• Department: Philosophy Main
• Course: PHIL 322
• Professor: ALL

Document Summary

Applied kanitan doctrine of respect for person to the problem of sweatshops. Mne therefore have the responsibilities of ensuring local labor laws are being followed, to refrain from coercion, to meet minimum safety standards, and to provide a living wage for workers. Respond to the objection that improving health and safety conditions and providing a living wage would cause greater harm than good. Key principle here is kant"s second formulation of the categorical imperative: "act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only. Humans are capable of rational, self-governing activity. Persons ought to be respected because persons have dignity. Freedom in its fullest realization is the ability to guide one"s actions from laws that are of one"s own making. When we act autonomously we have the capacity to act with dignity.