kingdom of ends
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The kingdom of ends is a hypothetical, ideal society in which every individual is treated as an end and no one is treated as a means to an end.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
Kant states that another way to arrive at a universal maxim is to imagine you are creating laws for a kingdom of ends.
From Textbooks ● Jun. 15, 2022
The Lord's kingdom is a kingdom of ends, which are uses; or what is the same thing, a kingdom of uses which are ends.
From Heaven and its Wonders and Hell by Ager, John
A complete characterization of all maxims by means of that formula, namely, that all maxims ought by their own legislation to harmonize with a possible kingdom of ends as with a kingdom of nature.
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill
Now such a kingdom of ends would be actually realized by means of maxims conforming to the canon which the categorical imperative prescribes to all rational beings, if they were universally followed.
From Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysic of Morals by Abbott, Thomas Kingsmill
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