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- Title
The Guise of the Objectively Good.
- Authors
Kahn, Samuel
- Abstract
The article offers the author's insights on the guise of the objectively good (GOG). The author argues that using the influential version of Emmanuel Kant's formula of humanity (FH) and regress argument which provide a good reason to view GOG as false. He states that regress argument can be used in the case of those agents who represent their ends objectively good even if sometimes they do not. He adds the infection theory to distinguish how different agent represent their ends.
- Subjects
HUMANITY; ENDS &; means; GOAL (Psychology); KANT, Immanuel, 1724-1804; ETHICS; REGRESSION analysis
- Publication
Journal of Value Inquiry, 2013, Vol 47, Issue 1/2, p87
- ISSN
0022-5363
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10790-013-9372-2