Blog Prompt 8:

Summarize and explain the second formulation of the categorical imperative commanding us to treat people (ourselves included) as “ends in themselves” and never merely as means. Consider intrinsic versus instrumental value and how that value plays a role in moral theory.

The idea of Kant’s Humanity Formulation of CI is that we as humans see each other in a way of respect. He argues that we intuitively can not treat other humans as a lowly viewed object of use or no use at all.

That there is always a use for people for without them we wouldn’t have the things we have now.