Ends in themselves and the predisposition to personality : reappraising the grounds of unconditional value in Kantian thought

• Main Author: Γεωργόπουλος, Θεόδωρος
• Other Authors: Κόντος, Παύλος
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2017
• Subjects: Humanity; Personality; Universality; Empirical reason; Pure reason; Autonomy; Ανθρωπότητα; Προσωπικότητα; Καθολικότητα; Εμπειρικός λόγος; Καθαρός λόγος; Αυτονομία; 170

In section II of the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) Kant holds that the rational human being - and every rational being in general - is the objective ground for the self-determination of every rational will, an unconditionally valuable end in itself. In the same work though, he appea...