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    It is not the case that Humanity is an objective end.

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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