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AnonymousYeah, I’m kind of almost with you on this one. I’m guessing you got a lot of this from Smith’s “theory of moral sentiments”?
I think Kant wrote a lot about all this. Slavery was a breach of his categorical imperative as it didn’t allow humans the autonomy to make their own choices and thus they cannot be human. However, if we put it on everyone to be responsible for what they do, only then can we judge and only then can we have morality and only then can we have society. Slavery does not allow for a moral society.
Yep, Marxism refines all people down to terminology in a system and doesn’t not allow them to be an ‘end’ in themselves. Everyone is just a means to society’s end and so no individual is an end in themselves.