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By conforming to the categorical and hypothetical imperatives, a rational agent makes itself into an agent.

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1.Some objects make themselves into the kind of objects they are by conforming to their constitutive standards (the self-constitution requirement).
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2.Rational agents are objects of this self-constituting kind.
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3.The categorical and hypothetical imperatives are the constitutive standards of rational agency.
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1.Agency is constituted by causal history and embodied dispositions, not conformity to formal imperatives (Aristotle, NE II.1; Anscombe, 'Modern Moral Philosophy').
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2.A being can satisfy the categorical imperative on a single occasion without thereby becoming an agent, revealing that conformity is at most a symptom, not a constitutive condition.
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