Grounding moral duties requires a standpoint external to or transcendent of the natural order, as Kant's categorical imperative derives from rational autonomy outside empiricalcausation.
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Rational autonomy(as what Kant believed was undermined by causal necessity)
The freedom to govern yourself through your own reasoning and decisions, rather than being controlled by forces outside your conscious control.
categorical imperative(Groundwork, 4.421, 429)
The moral law requiring that one will the maxim of an action as a universal law (removing any self-preference) and treat humanity in any person always as an end and never merely as a means
grounding(Drawn from contemporary metaphysics; proposed as potentially applicable to understanding the foundations of legality.)
A metaphysical relation in which some entities or facts are more foundational than others, providing a hierarchical structure of the world.
transcendent(Rickert's epistemological framework)
To really exist without the form of being-conscious (Bewußtheit)