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    Challenges→Rational wills that are negatively free must be autonomous.

    Kant's move from 'not governed by natural law' to 'must be self-legislated' illicitly excludes a third option: governance by objective rational norms independent of any will's authorship.

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    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    governed by natural law(describes one option Kant considers)
    Being controlled or determined by the physical laws of nature, like how planets orbit the sun or objects fall due to gravity.
    illicitly excludes(describes the logical problem being identified)
    Unfairly or wrongly leaves out a possibility that should have been considered.
    independent of any will's authorship(clarifies that these norms aren't made up by people)
    Not created or decided upon by anyone's choice or desire—existing on their own as objective truths.

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    objective rational norms(the third option allegedly left out)
    Standards of how things should be done that are based on reason and logic, and exist independently of what any individual person wants or believes.
    self-legislated(Kant's alternative to natural law)
    Creating and following your own rules or laws, rather than having them imposed on you by someone or something else.

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