Immanuel Kant's Moral Philsophy and the Place of the Emprical in Ethics

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…showed last 75 words of 1207 total…respect for inherent human dignity is termed by Kant the "Kingdom of Ends". While even Kant recognizes that such a state is more of a moral promised land to which we may all aspire, it is certain that if humanity ever hopes to reach the Kingdom of Ends it must do so with moral thinking that has its "seat and origin completely" in a priori reason, and avoids entirely the pitfalls of contingent, empirical "morality".