The Kingdom of Ends is a thought experiment in the moral philosophy of Immanuel Kant. Kant introduced the concept in his work, the Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals (4:439). It proposes a world in which all human beings are treated as ends in themselves, rather than made use of as means to the ends of other people.
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