ABSTRACT
Recently, various institutions and persons have been the object of demands that they treat persons as persons, not things. The notion of treating persons as persons, on which this paper will mainly dwell, might be thought to have mainly or even entirely a moral import, so that the people could translate it, 'treating persons as they ought, morally, to be treated'. The notion of treating persons as persons, on which this chapter will mainly dwell, might be thought to have mainly or even entirely a moral import, so that they could translate it, ‘treating persons as they ought, morally, to be treated’. The difference, however, between the s-personal and the objective is not simply a difference between two kinds of policy; indeed, the two need not have in common even a disposition to take up a policy. Both detachment and using someone for the people ends must be distinguished from literally treating a person as a non-animate object.
