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kingdom of ends
noun
- (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
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.
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."
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.
A rational being belongs as a member to the kingdom of ends when, although giving universal laws in it, he is also himself subject to these laws.
Morality consists then in the reference of all action to the legislation which alone can render a kingdom of ends possible.
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