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    Kant's transcendental idealism, which grounds this freedo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→A rational will must act under the Idea of its own freedom

    Kant's transcendental idealism, which grounds this freedom, is unavailable to empirical agents reasoning about their own causal situation.

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    • 1.Transcendental idealism requires stepping outside empirical space-time to access noumenal freedom, but empirical agents are always situated within phenomenal experience.
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    • 2.Knowing one's own causal situation requires third-person objective knowledge, incompatible with Kant's first-person intelligible character access.
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    • 3.The transcendental perspective is a theoretical construct, not an epistemic resource available during actual deliberation about one's choices.
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    • 1.Empirical agents need not consciously access transcendental idealism's metaphysics to exercise freedom—practical reasoning itself operates on that ground.
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    • 2.The unavailability objection conflates epistemic access with metaphysical grounding; causal situations can be determined by non-empirical facts agents cannot fully know.
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    • 3.Kant's distinction between phenomena and noumena applies to reasoning itself, so empirical agents can indirectly grasp their freedom through rational agency.
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