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    Challenges→The Categorical Imperative can fully ground our conception of what morality requires of us

    If the source of moral normativity requires a substantive account of human nature, then formal rationality alone cannot fully ground moral requirements.

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    • 1.Formal rationality (consistency, non-contradiction) is silent on what ends agents should pursue or value.
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    • 2.Moral requirements prescribe specific actions and virtues that cannot be derived from logical structure alone.
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    • 3.Only substantive claims about human flourishing, needs, or purposes can explain why rationality generates obligations.
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    • 1.Formal rationality generates substantive moral constraints through principles like universalizability and impartiality.
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    • 2.Human nature itself may be too contested and culture-dependent to serve as a stable foundation for universal morality.
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    • 3.Kantian and contractualist frameworks successfully ground obligations using only rational consistency, without thick anthropology.
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