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    It is not the case that For Kant, practical irrationality, both moral and prudential, focuses mainly on our willing rather than on actions, feelings, or desires.

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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Universal Law tests maxims—propositional descriptions of actions—not bare acts of willing, making actions central to moral evaluation.
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    • 2.The Groundwork's categorical imperative procedure cannot function without referencing the action-type embedded in the maxim, not merely the agent's willing.
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    • 1.Kant's account of moral worth in the Groundwork explicitly requires that duty-motivated action produce the right external deed, not merely a correct internal volition.
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    • 2.Christine Korsgaard and Barbara Herman both argue that Kant's ethics is irreducibly action-guiding, meaning the will's rationality is only assessable through its action-determining outputs.
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    • 1.Kant presents rational requirements as demands on the will rather than on external acts.
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    • 2.While other moral views may focus on actions, feelings, or desires, Kant's framework locates rational requirements in the will.
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