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    If one can prove on independent grounds that something is... — Carmelics
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    If one can prove on independent grounds that something is an end in itself, one will have an argument for a categorical imperative

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    • There is an end in itself if and only if there is a categorical imperative binding on all rational agents as such
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    • 1.Christine Korsgaard's constitutivism shows that the source of categorical normativity is self-constitution, not the independent metaphysical status of ends.
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    • 2.If categorical imperatives derive from practical identity rather than pre-given ends in themselves, proving something is an end in itself is normatively inert without an account of agency.
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    • 3.Parfit's Reasons and Persons demonstrates that facts about what has ultimate value underdetermine which imperatives are genuinely categorical versus strongly agent-relative.
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    • 1.Ends in themselves can ground only hypothetical imperatives if rational agents have divergent fundamental desires that determine what they must pursue.
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    • 2.Schiller and the Romantics argued that human dignity as an end generates imperatives conditional on valuing harmonious self-expression, not unconditional duties.
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    The apparent failure of Kant’s argument to establish the autonomy of the will, and hence the authority of moral demands over us, has not deterred his followers from trying to make good on this project. One strategy favored recently has been to turn back to the arguments of Groundwork II for help. Kant himself repeatedly claimed that these arguments are merely analytic but that they do not establish that there is anything that answers to the concepts he analyzes. The conclusions are thus fully co
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