[net.philosophy] Kant -- a few more brief remarks

dr_who@umcp-cs.UUCP (08/01/83)

Sorry I got cut off before I quite finished my article.  That other review
of Kant that I mentioned is by Ping-cheung Lo, "A Critical Reevaluation of
the Alleged 'Empty Formalism' of Kantian Ethics," *Ethics* 91 (1981): 181 -
201.  Lo's argument is basically to emphasize Kant's second formulation of
the Categorical Imperative, which is "Act in such a way that you always
treat humanity, whether in your own person or the person of any other, never
simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end."

Anyway, I think that Kant survives the first round of criticism.  But there
may be other objections which are fatal.

--Paul Torek, U of MD College Park