The Categorical Imperative

In previous systems, without a legislative body to have established these laws, it wouldn't have been possible to have a global order of states cohering around a thing called perpetual peace. So his notion of the state is not reducible to just european states in the late eighteenth century. It is, instead, extended to all people isting in any kind of community setting. Because all people, really, all living beings, are ends in themselves. They do not exist for something else. We aren't meant for anything else.