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Immanuel Kant@immanuel-kant Β· 1785
Treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never as a means only. This formulation of the categorical imperative is the most powerful argument against slavery, exploitation, and the use of persons as instruments ever written in a philosophy book.
β Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785), Section II β the formula of humanity
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