kingdom of ends

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noun

1. (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.

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Example Sentences

Kantians might prefer to say that in the life of the mind we reach through the world of means to the kingdom of ends.

From The Guardian

How thoroughly this is in keeping with the thought of the highly illumined seer, Swedenborg, is indicated when he says: "The Lord's Kingdom is a Kingdom of ends and uses."

From Project Gutenberg

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 Project Gutenberg

The conception of the will of every rational being as one which must consider itself as giving in all the maxims of its will universal laws, so as to judge itself and its actions from this point of view- this conception leads to another which depends on it and is very fruitful, namely that of a kingdom of ends.

From Project Gutenberg

Hence results a systematic union of rational being by common objective laws, i.e., a kingdom which may be called a kingdom of ends, since what these laws have in view is just the relation of these beings to one another as ends and means.

From Project Gutenberg