Kantian Personhood Principle

This paper formulates the labor theory of property and democratic theory in the context of the Kantian personhood princple to treat other persons always as ends in themselves and never simply as means. It was originally published in: Journal of Economic Issues, Vol. 22, No. 4 (December 1988), 1109-22, and then as Chapter 4 of Intellectual Trespassing as a Way of Life: Essays in Philosophy, Economics, and Mathematics, Rowman and Littlefield, 1995.

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