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    Humanity is an objective end. — Carmelics
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    Humanity is an objective end.

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    • 1.An objective end is an end that every rational being must have.
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    • 2.Humanity is an end that every rational being must have.
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    • 1.Ends are necessarily subjective because they derive their normative force from particular agents' contingent desires and valuations (Humean tradition).
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    • 2.Humanity lacks intrinsic motivational force independent of an agent's actual desires, making it a conditional rather than categorical end.
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    • 1.Christine Korsgaard's constitutivism shows that rational nature grounds value only reflexively, meaning its authority is self-legislated rather than objectively discovered.
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    • 2.A self-legislated end cannot be 'objective' in the strong metaphysical sense Kant requires, since its normative status depends on prior endorsement by each rational agent.
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    Humanity is in the first instance an end in this negative sense: It is something that limits what I may do in pursuit of my other ends, similar to the way that my end of self-preservation limits what I may do in pursuit of other ends. Insofar as it limits my actions, it is a source of perfect duties. Now many of our ends are subjective in that they are not ends that every rational being must have. Humanity is an objective end, because it is an end that every rational being must have. Hence, my o
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