Sentence examples for one's own ends from inspiring English sources

His argument is based on what he takes to be "a bit of Kant from Ethics 101," namely the principle that one should always treat other people, "presumably even proto-people," as an end in themselves and never solely as a means to one's own ends.

Coercion is defined as a restriction of the freedom to pursue one's own ends.

What is problematic therefore, according to Green, is to treat a person merely as an object, merely as a means to one's own ends.

During his tour of the school he drops in on classes on: precipitating arguments; how to blink facts; turkey talk; experiments in virtue cultivating & bud nipping & lulling with false promises; how to hold up one's own end; how to rub elbows with the great and the near-great.

There was also talk about how to plan for one's own death – whether ending one's life is an act of ultimate self-determination or an unforgivable burden for loved ones – and of the meaning of life itself.

Perhaps its hardwood pews might not provide the utmost comfort for those opting for a double bill; with immersion this immense it's very rarely one's own rear end on the mind.

As a result, the home -- which is so important to perceptions of family and belonging, and a source of that happiness that comes from living on one's own terms -- ends up left behind, a sacrifice to the dictates of biology.

To use whatever the Nazis said and did for one's own political ends is always a difficult and dangerous matter, no less so for the AKP as it tried to dismantle Atatürk -- and distance Erdoğan from him.

Intimate matters are no longer markers of tragic destiny but, rather, of the practical will to confront them; the market-centered cinema of private life sells the prospect of making one's own happy ending.

When one makes one's own Humanity one's end, one pursues its development, much as when one makes becoming a pianist one's end, one pursues the development of piano playing.

"When friends die, one's own credentials change: one becomes a survivor," she writes at the end.