Baker, Alyson2022-06-302022-06-302021http://hdl.handle.net/10179/17241For Kant, human beings are unique in their rationality; non-human animals are not conscious of themselves through time, hence they cannot be agents in his moral landscape. A fresh look at Kant’s concepts relating to pure reason, practical reason, and judgement, will show Kant’s position regarding non-human animals does not follow from his theories of cognition or morality. Using Kant’s own concept of <general rationality>, chimpanzees, as an example of a non-human animal, stand firmly within Kant’s moral landscape as moral agents. We are therefore bound to treat chimpanzees as ends-in-themselves.enThe AuthorThesis500312 Philosophy of cognition500101 Bioethics