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    Kant's account of radical evil requires that the agent subordinate the moral law to inclination through a free act of maxim-adoption.

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    • 1.Kant defines radical evil as corruption of the incentive structure itself, requiring conscious reversal of moral and sensible motives.
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    • 2.Only a free act of maxim-adoption can constitute genuine moral culpability; automatic inclination lacks the voluntariness evil requires.
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    • 3.Subordination of moral law to inclination must be chosen to explain why agents remain responsible despite their corrupted nature.
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    • 1.Kant's own account suggests evil may result from weakness of will or frailty, not deliberate maxim-reversal, undermining the requirement.
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    • 2.The notion that agents can freely adopt maxims while their incentive structure is already corrupted appears conceptually incoherent.
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    • 3.Empirical observation shows most wrongdoing stems from unconsidered habituation rather than explicit acts of maxim-adoption.
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