Practical reason, it might be suggested, is a holistic enterprise, properly concerned not merely with identifying means to the realization of individual ends, but with the coordinated achievement of the totality of an agent's ends.
Burke's hope, in effect, is not a realization of particular ends, such as the "liberty" and "equality" of the French Revolution, but an intensification and reconciliation of the multifarious elements of the good life that community exists to forward.
"After an arbitrator's decision and two levels of failed appeals, Goldman's claim in bankruptcy court, which will further delay distribution to long-suffering customers, only impedes the realization of these ends".
The idea of freedom as the absence of constraints on the realization of given ends might be criticised as failing to capture this exercise concept of freedom, for the latter concept makes no reference to the absence of constraints.
If Kant has already established that on the basis of our awareness of our obligations under the moral law we can be confident that we have free will and that all of the laws of nature are at least consistent with our realization of the ends commanded by the moral law, what more needs to be done in order to throw a bridge between the theoretical cognition of nature and the laws of freedom?
When the means, strictly adhered to, seem to block the realization of the end, sacrifice them.
Here man is "an instrument for the realization of an end which transcends man … [who] serves his God lishmah because He is worthy of worship" (Judaism, 14).
Biological creatures work to fulfill the realization of their end or telos, a specific way of living a complete life characteristic of the plants or animals of their own kind, which is the distinctive purpose that defines their fundamental nature just as human artifacts are designed and used for specific ends.
From conceptualization to realization of the end production... It's a monumental task.
Far from being the realization of Renaud's end goal, today's successes are sure to become the middle of a story of even greater success in the years and decades to come.
