Question

3. “ ... everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price is such that something else can also be put

in its place as its equivalent; by contrast, that which is elevated above all price, and admits of no

equivalent, has a dignity. ‘Human beings’, unlike all other objects, possess dignity. They are for this reason

valuable in themselves”.

Identify the speaker in the above passage. The word price has been used thrice in the above passage. What

is the importance of this word in the above passage? Infer the relation between dignity and human beings

and try to explain it briefly. (4)



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Answer 1

Answer:

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.