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    It is implausible to hold that immoral acts are not freel... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The Wolff-style interpretation—that we either act rationally and autonomously or are merely caused to behave by non-rational forces heteronomously—is implausible.

    It is implausible to hold that immoral acts are not freely willed.

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    A different interpretive strategy, which has gained prominence in recent years, focuses on Kant’s apparent identification, in Groundwork III, of the will and practical reason. One natural way of interpreting Kant’s conception of freedom is to understand it in terms of the freedom and spontaneity of reason itself. This in turn apparently implies that our wills are necessarily aimed at what is rational and reasonable. To will something, on this picture, is to govern oneself in accordance with reas

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