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KANTIAN ETHICS AND A THEORY OF JUSTICE; REIMAN, KAUFMAN AND MACINTYRE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 1997

HEATHER O'REILLY-MEACOCK
HEATHER O'REILLY-MEACOCK
Affiliation:
LSU College of Higher Education, The Avenue, Southampton SO17 1BG
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Abstract

It is undeniable that the influence of Kantian ethics has been monumental in illuminating the significance of persons as free moral agents. By virtue of being bearers of reason and responsibility, a dignity is conferred upon humans on account of their status as unique persons. Kaufman emphasises this point in his recent work, In Face of Mystery: A Constructive Theology in the context of the relationship between individual and collective ethics;

persons – as free and responsible agents and thus in important respects self-determining and with projects of their own – should never be dealt with as mere ‘things’, mere instruments for the purposes of others; they are always entitled to special respect.

Type
Research Article
Information
Religious Studies , Volume 33 , Issue 1 , March 1997 , pp. 93 - 103
Copyright
1997 Cambridge University Press

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