06 March 2011

Question


What would have been Immanuel Kant's view on the ethics of cloning?

We can be confident he would not have said, "Ah, so long as it turns out to have medical uses. It is good to help people after all. Necessary means to that end."

Kant is the Arch-deontologist. Begin there.

Can we go any further?
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