PHIL 224 Lecture Notes - Rae Helen Langton, Fungibility
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Nessbaum takes a much more open approach the kant there will be different moral responses depending on what the objectification is. Instrumentality: use as tool for own purposes (nussbaum"s worst case) 1: denial of autonomy: treat as lacking self-determination (if persistent character of relationship) You gotta push it around to make it move. Exploiting characteristics that are more human, or as mere objects: fungibility: treat as interchangeable/substitutable commodification. Exchangeable for an amount of value: violability: treat as lacking in boundary-integrity, permissible to break apart/into.