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    It is not the case that If the realization of the highest good is not possible, then we cannot rationally promote the highest good as an end

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    • 1.Kant's own regulative use of ideas permits rational pursuit of ends whose full realization transcends possible experience.
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    • 2.The highest good functions as a regulative ideal directing moral striving, not a constitutive goal requiring guaranteed metaphysical achievability.
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    • 3.Rational promotion of an end requires only that progress toward it is conceivable, not that its complete realization is theoretically demonstrable.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Sisyphean and tragic moral traditions (e.g., Camus, Bernard Williams) hold that an agent can be rationally and morally committed to ends known to be unrealizable.
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    • 2.The rationality of promoting an end is grounded in its intrinsic moral worth, not in the probability or possibility of its achievement.
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    • 1.For promotion of an end to be rational, the end must be one that we can rationally view as possible
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    • 2.If an end is not possible, it cannot be made sense of as an end at all
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