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    Kant's autonomy principle requires that legitimate normat... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The account of legitimate authority as a justification right is not undermined by the autonomy-based objection to authority.

    Kant's autonomy principle requires that legitimate normative constraints originate from the subject's own rational will, not from external institutional rights.

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    • 1.Kant grounds legitimacy in rational self-governance: only constraints I rationally endorse as universal bind me morally.
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    • 2.Institutional rights imposed externally bypass my rational will, treating me as a means rather than an autonomous agent.
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    • 3.The categorical imperative requires I act only on maxims I could rationally will as universal law, not external mandates.
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    • 1.Kant's theory of rights distinguishes moral autonomy from juridical right: institutions can legitimately constrain freedom.
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    • 2.Rational will alone cannot generate binding duties on others without institutional structures to enforce reciprocal respect.
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    • 3.Autonomy requires external legal frameworks protecting liberty; without them, individual rational wills conflict unresolvably.
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