Original sentence: All rational agents rationally will themselves to be an end and never merely a means, entailing that it is morally obligatory that all rational agents be treated as ends in themselves, and never merely as means.From this, Kant made his second formulation of the categorical imperative.He concluded that all rational agents were co-legislators of the rational law because they were in part ends of the law.Kant held rational beings to the same level as the rational law: morality.Kant justified this second formulation by asserting that moral obligation is rational necessity.Kant noted that all humans are rational and so the law developed for rational agents applies to them.Simply by existing, rational agents constrain the moral actions of others, legislating that others cannot morally treat them as a mere means to an end
Edited sentence: All rational agents rationally will themselves to be an end and never merely a means.From this conclusion, Kant formulated his second Categorical Imperative:.He concluded that all rational agents were actually co-legislators of the rational law because they themselves were in part ends of the law.He notes that all humans are rational.Here Kant made the small leap from rational agents to humanity.In other words, simply by existing, rational agents constrain the moral actions of others, legislating that others cannot morally treat them as a mere means.Kant held rational beings to the same level as the rational law, i.Kant justified this second Categorical Imperative in much the same way he justified his first.Namely, moral obligation is rational necessity.Therefore, it is morally obligatory that all rational agents be treated as ends in themselves, and never merely as means.Therefore, the law which had been developed for rational agents applied to humans as well