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    Challenges→Kant's conception of freedom should be understood in terms of the freedom and spontaneity of reason itself.

    Allison's 'incorporation thesis' notwithstanding, Henry Sidgwick and later P.F. Strawson argue that moral responsibility requires a causal power to do otherwise, not merely rational self-legislation.

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    Causal power to do otherwise(as used in debates about free will and responsibility)
    The ability to have actually chosen or acted differently in a situation; the real possibility that you could have made a different choice.
    Henry Sidgwick(The statement references his book and argument)
    A 19th-century British philosopher who wrote influential works on ethics and how people make moral decisions.
    Incorporation Thesis(Martin's account of hope)
    The view that the hoping person incorporates the desire-element into her rational scheme of ends
    P.F. Strawson(as the author of 'Freedom and Resentment')
    A 20th-century British philosopher famous for analyzing how we actually think and talk about everyday things like freedom and blame, rather than abstract theories.
    Rational self-legislation

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    (as used in ethics)
    The idea that you should live by rules you create for yourself through careful thinking, rather than just following what feels good or what society tells you to do.
    moral responsibility(The author argues for a pluralistic understanding rather than a Kantian-exclusive one)
    A normative concept whose scope is contested; the passage implies it encompasses at least Kantian notions (centered on individual rational agency) and other notions (potentially sociological, collective, or non-individualist in character)

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