Titel
A Kantian Reading of ‘Good’ and ‘Good For’
Some Reflections on Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen’s Fitting Attitude Analysis of Value
Abstract
The paper argues that Toni Ronnow-Rasmussen's fitting­ attitude analysis of 'good' and 'good for' allows us to interpret and justify Kant's Formula of Humanity (FH) in a constructive way. His classification of 'good' as a non-relational intrinsic final value and 'good for' as a relational extrinsic final value sheds light on two main features of FH, namely that it requires us to display a specific attitude to human beings, while also obligating us to recognize this value in the relational dimension. Based on a reflection of what attitudes toward persons are fitting, we might well come to endorse that persons are "ends in themselves" and merit respect and recognition. I then argue (by way of an ethical reading of Kant' s demand to leave the state of nature and move to a rightful civil condition) that we have, in addition to a fitting attitude, deontic normative reasons (not mere pro tanto reasons) for making this very attitude toward persons the principal standard for our relations to others and to ourselves.
Stichwort
Value TheoryEthical TheoryKant's Formula of HumanityFitting Attitude Analysis of Value
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Sprache
Englisch [eng]
Persistent identifier
https://phaidra.univie.ac.at/o:1643158
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Titel
Value, Morality & Social Reality: Essays dedicated to Dan Egonsson, Björn Petersson & Toni Rønnow-Rasmussen
ISBN
978-91-89415-66-9
Verlag
Department of Philosophy, Lund University , 2023
Seitenanfang
309
Seitenende
325
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