{"id":360,"date":"2024-02-07T15:08:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T14:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kantzentrumnrw.sites.phil.uni-siegen.de\/?p=360"},"modified":"2024-03-26T09:10:52","modified_gmt":"2024-03-26T08:10:52","slug":"using-people-well-treating-people-badly-towards-a-kantian-realm-of-ends-and-means","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/using-people-well-treating-people-badly-towards-a-kantian-realm-of-ends-and-means\/","title":{"rendered":"USING PEOPLE WELL, TREATING PEOPLE BADLY. Towards a Kantian Realm of Ends and Means"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our&nbsp;project will develop a Kantian account of mistreating persons alongside an account of treating persons well. According to a well-known principle of Kant\u2019s ethics, we should never use people&nbsp;<em>merely<\/em>&nbsp;as means. This is the wrong of instrumentalization. However, Kant also insists on our duties to act&nbsp;<em>as means<\/em>&nbsp;for one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We explore two connections between these ideas. First, we analyse forms of mistreatment beyond instrumentalization, such as exclusion and paternalism. In particular, we emphasise that many forms of mistreatment deny people opportunities to act as means for others. This is the second connection. To affirm people\u2019s status as ends-in-themselves, we must recognise their abilities and responsibilities to act as means. As such, we explore an overlooked dimension of Kant\u2019s ideal \u201erealm of ends.\u201c People should relate to each other, not only as ends-in-themselves, but&nbsp;<strong>also as means<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The project is funded by a\u00a0collaboration\u00a0of the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukri.org\/councils\/ahrc\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arts &amp; Humanities Research Council (AHRC)<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dfg.de\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DfG)<\/a>. The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/usingpeoplewell\/team?authuser=0\">project team<\/a>\u00a0is\u00a0Corinna Mieth and Ewa Wyr\u0119bska-\u0110ermanovi\u0107 (Ruhr-Universit\u00e4t Bochum), Martin Sticker (University of Bristol) and Garrath Williams (Lancaster University).\u00a0The project began in February 2023 and will run until January 2026.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More information on this project can be found on the following website: <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/usingpeoplewell\/home\">https:\/\/sites.google.com\/view\/usingpeoplewell\/home<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our&nbsp;project will develop a Kantian account of mistreating persons alongside an account of treating persons well. According to a well-known principle of Kant\u2019s ethics, we should never use people&nbsp;merely&nbsp;as means. This is the wrong of instrumentalization. However, Kant also insists on our duties to act&nbsp;as means&nbsp;for one another. We explore two connections between these ideas. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":364,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kooperatoinen"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":646,"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions\/646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kant-zentrum-nrw.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}