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Kant claimed that it is morally wrong to use a person merely as a means to your ends. Does this principle help us in our judgements regarding the morality of prostitution and pornography?
“Act that you use humanity, whether in your person or in another, always at the same time as an end, never merely as a means.-Immanuel Kant
This quote has is often referred to as the “Mere Means Principle” or the Principal of Humanity. But what does it really mean? How does this relate to issues in today’s society such a prostitution and pornography?
Many have argued that according to the Mere Means Principle, anything goes. As long as we are living our lives the way we see fit, nothing is morally out of the question. However, if one had truly studied the writings of Kant, they would know that he feels quite the opposite and lived his life by a strict moral code,
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals in Immanuel Kant: Practical Philosophy, trans. Mary Gregor (Cambridge, 1996)
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment, Translated by J. H. Bernard, New York: Hafner Publishing, 1951. (Original publication date 1892)