Sentence examples for as ends from inspiring English sources

The Marquis de Sade reverses Immanuel Kant in advocating that people be treated not as ends but only as means.

In democratic politics, means matter as well as ends.

The person is preoccupied with rules and procedures as ends in themselves.

The two need to be separated, as ends and means are divided in assessing personal behavior.

They acknowledge that civilisation is a matter of means as well as ends.

On the other hand, creative activities as ends in themselves — or even as self-contained competitions — were more than fine.

There is a difference between admiring a country's ways as ends in themselves and as mere means.

Like the orchestra, Maazel seems to value industriousness and competence as primary goals -- as ends, not means.

But such cases matter not just for the defendants, and not even just for our freedoms as ends in themselves.

For unlike a moralist, I am not insisting that everyone ought to treat all sentient beings as ends-in-themselves.

Kant also affirmed that the moral law demands that we treat others as ends-in-themselves, whereas lying involves treating others merely as means.