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Phil 287-07E
September 8th, 2016
5. Explain the rationale for the limitation on private property based on the rule not to
waste.
Locke explains that people have a limit to the amount of property they own, and this limit
is based on how they use that property. If someone cannot use the entirety of the property they
own, then they are just wasting that land which someone else could use instead.
6. Explain the connection among the second limitation Locke put on private property, the
as much and as good provision, the invention of money, and the expansion of Europeans
to America.
He refers to taking too much property from your neighbor. The as much and as good
provision states that you should not hoard. This is the principle of fairness. Europeans came to
America and took as much of the land as they believe they deserved. The expansion was the
result of Europeans trying to get as much and as good.
7. Explain how Kant distinguishes an end-in-itself and a mere thing.
Things are beings whose existence depends on natures will and are also nonrational.
People are ends in themselves because their nature, their rationality, makes them that way. Kant
wants humans to treat other humans as an end itself, not as a means to an end.
8. Even though animals are, for Kant, mere things, why is it wrong to harm animals in
many instances? Alternatively, when is it allowable to harm animals?
Kant Believes that our duty towards animals are indirect duties towards humanity,
because animal nature has analogies to human nature. Thus, it is wrong to harm animals in
instances where one would also harm humans. Its okay to hurt animals for research purposes.
9. Do you agree with Kant's view that animals are mere things? Explain.
No, because I believe that nature views and treats us and animals equally.