A simplified Account of Kant's Ethics

Onary O’l Neill

A professor who wrote about Kantian Ethics

Overview

Kantian ethics can be difficult to understand but if we focus on one aspect it can be easy to comperhend.

We focus on the categorical imperative on not using people as a mere means

Example of people being used

Mere means

When someone is being used in a manner that they cannot principally concent

Example of person being used as a mere means

Using someone as a means by buying something from them is not wrong but if they are coerced or decieved where they cannot consent, then they are beiing used as a mere means