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- Title
Never Merely as a Means: Rethinking the Role and Relevance of Consent.
- Authors
Fahmy, Melissa Seymour
- Abstract
For several decades, Kant scholars, inspired by the Groundwork false-promising example, have constructed consent-based criteria for using another merely as a means. Unfortunately, these consent-based accounts produce assessments that are both counter-intuitive and un-Kantian in relatively simple cases. This article investigates why these consent-based accounts fail and offers an alternative. The Groundwork false-promising example has encouraged a problematically narrow understanding of the conditions for using another merely as a means in virtue of the fact that the example involves a consent-sensitive duty. This article demonstrates that the scope of the prohibition on using another merely as a means includes both consent-sensitive and consent- insensitive duties and offers a duty-based account that reflects this.
- Publication
Kantian Review, 2023, Vol 28, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
1369-4154
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S136941542200053X