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Title:聽The Incomparable Value of the Individual Abstract: Kant believed that every human being should be treated as an end in itself. In the聽Groundwork, Kant explains many of our duties by arguing that their violation would involve treating a human being as a mere means. But we cannot explain all of our duties that way. Nor…

Title:聽Autonomy and control over one鈥檚 social self-consciousness Abstract: Humans have the capacity to absorb 鈥� to feel 鈥� others鈥� feelings. More particularly we feel others鈥� feelings about ourselves: at least as long as we are awake, we are subject to being self-consciously affected in our interactions with others. We are capable of social self-consciousness, and…

Title:聽Hope and the Powers of Shared Agency Abstract: This paper argues that Kant鈥檚 theory of radical evil exalts the powers of organized, shared and institutional, agency. In section 1, I illustrate the paradoxicality of radical evil and the novelty of Kant鈥檚 鈥渆mpowering鈥� conception focused on human agency. In section 2, I argue that radical evil…