Defending Kant

In response to yesterday's anti-Kant attack ad, John Holbo suggests the following defense of Kant's ethics: See web-only content:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/12/defending-kant/47327/ I'd say, though, that this little ditty recapitulates one of the oft-criticized flaws in Kant's thinking, namely the surface non-equivalance of different formulations of the key moral principle.

This article available online at:

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2007/12/defending-kant/47327/