Kantian Meadows: A Just Nursing Home Grounded in the Categorical Imperative

This dissertation examines the structures of contemporary nursing homes and argues that the structure is conducive to the objectification (treatment of a human being as a non-person) of nursing home residents. In order to eliminate the potential for objectification, this project employs the Kantian categorical imperative as its theoretical framework. Based on that framework Kantian Meadows is created as an example of a just nursing home.

Name thesis:degree_name

PhD

Level thesis:degree_level

Immediate Access

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Philosophy

Year dc:date.available

2006

Author dc:creator

• Bjalobok, Faith

Contributors dc:contributor

• Fred Evans
• Charles Don Keyes
• Will Aiken

• Kant
• Nursing Homes

Language dc:language

English

Repository record dc:identifier

https://dsc.duq.edu/etd/325

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dsc.duq.edu:etd-1338