Laura Papish

Beyond Beneficence: Commerce and Interaction in Relation to Kant’s Formula of Humanity

In the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals , Kant names beneficence, or promotion of another’s happiness, as the way we attain “positive” agreement with the humanity in another person (GMS 4:430). I argue, however, that beneficence is not the only way, or necessarily the pref...