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Valuing Our Humanity1 Christine M. Korsgaard Harvard University. I. Introduction. In 1986, I published a paper on Kant’s Formula of Humanity, the version. of Kant’s categorical imperative that commands us to treat every human being. not merely as a means, but always also as an end in himself or herself.2 In it, I.
31. Juli 2009 · Christine Korsgaard presents answers to these questions, answers that inextricably link the reply to one question to the replies to the others. In her view, rationality is the activity that constitutes agency. Insofar as an agent lives a rational life, she is guided by a central moral principle, the categorical imperative. The exploration of this view of the relation between morality ...
Christine Korsgaard setzt bei der Grundfrage an, was der Wert eines Lebens ist. In einer klar vorgetragenen, von Kants Moralphilosophie und einer Theorie des Guten nach Aristoteles ausgehenden Argumentation gelangt sie zu weitreichenden Schlussfolgerungen: Menschen sind nicht wichtiger als Tiere, und unsere moralische Natur macht uns Tieren auch nicht überlegen.
Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy. She traces their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one and comparing their early versions with those on the ...
Christine M. Korsgaard ist seit 1991 Professorin für Philosophie an der Harvard University. Zuvor hat sie unter anderem an der Yale University, der University of California at Santa Barbara und der University of Chicago gelehrt. Sie ist Mitglied der American Academy of Arts and Sciences und arbeitet zu Moralphilosophie, praktischer Vernunft, Handlungsfähigkeit und Tierethik.
Christine M. Korsgaard But once upon a time–about 600 million years ago–some of the living things on this planet became responsive in a particular way. They began to become aware of their surroundings, to form some sort of a representation of the environment in which they live. Presumably, this was because of the evolutionary advantages of ...
Christine Korsgaard identifies four accounts of the source of normativity that have been advocated by modern moral philosophers: voluntarism, realism, reflective endorsement, and the appeal to autonomy. She traces their history, showing how each developed in response to the prior one and comparing their early versions with those on the contemporary philosophical scene. Kant's theory that ...
