Abstract

Abstract: The Ideal of the Kingdom of Ends ‒ presented by Kant with a view to introducing a formula of the Categorical Imperative ‒ is often interpreted as the social element which his moral theory would lack. Humans would be moral agents conceived as lawmakers members of a possible social order. Against this interpretation I'll argue that the social dimension introduced by the technical conception of this Ideal is properly rational, presenting a genuinely cosmopolitan regulatory requirement, that gives nevertheless  to the theorythe resources for a proper moral treatment to the effective sociability from moral agency, then after all, the conditions of our  agency are effective social.

Keywords: kingdom of ends, ideal, formula of the categorical imperative, Reath, Rawls, Herman.