Another philosopher, Onara O’Neill, in her reading, “Kantian Approaches to Some Famine Problems,” furthered the discussion on famine and obligation by applying the Kantian moral theory (p. 561-66). She takes the Kantian view rather than the utilitarian view of Peter Singer and Jeremy Bentham. O’Neill claims that “Kantian ethics differ from utilitarian ethics both in its scope and in the precision with which it guides” (p. 566). O’Neill introduces the “Formula of the End in Itself,” which says that we are to behave in a way where humans treat humanity, not “simply as a means but always at the same time as an end.” This has to do with “the principle on which one sees oneself as acting” (p. 561). O’Neill feels our motives are more driven by our
