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    Kant's analogy between persons as ends and spatial limits... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→There are absolute constraints on the subjective ends we may set, the means we may use, and how we may treat persons.

    Kant's analogy between persons as ends and spatial limits commits a category error: persons are agents with dynamic, revisable ends, not fixed termini.

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    • 1.Persons possess autonomy and rational agency, enabling them to revise goals and identities throughout life, unlike fixed spatial boundaries.
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    • 2.Treating persons as static termini ignores their capacity for self-transformation, making the analogy metaphysically inadequate for moral theory.
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    • 3.Moral constraints on persons should reflect their nature as purposive agents, not merely as inviolable objects with predetermined limits.
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    • 1.The 'ends in themselves' formula concerns dignity and inviolability, not static essence—properties that don't require unchanging metaphysical nature.
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    • 2.Spatial boundaries (skin, property) do demarcate persons as distinct agents; dynamism doesn't eliminate the need for boundaries respecting autonomy.
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    • 3.Revisable ends don't contradict being an end-in-itself; constraints on how we treat agents apply regardless of whether their goals evolve.
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