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    Kant's arguments in Groundwork II do not establish that morality is more than a 'mere phantom of the brain'

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    • 1.Kant himself claimed the arguments of Groundwork II are merely analytic
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    • 2.Merely analytic arguments do not establish that there is anything that answers to the concepts they analyze
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    • 1.Kant's analytic method in Groundwork II presupposes the reality of ordinary moral consciousness, which itself constitutes synthetic evidence of moral bindingness.
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    • 2.Christine Korsgaard argues that the CI procedure's derivation from practical identity shows analytic unpacking can reveal genuinely normative, non-phantom constraints.
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    • 3.If common rational moral knowledge were a mere phantom, the systematic coherence Kant reveals through analysis would be inexplicable on any competing account.
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    • 1.Groundwork II's claim to be merely analytic is methodologically strategic, not ontologically deflationary—Kant reserves synthetic grounding for Groundwork III.
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    • 2.The charge of 'phantom' status misreads Kant's architectonic: analytic derivation establishes the content of morality, while Groundwork III's Faktum argument supplies its reality.
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    The apparent failure of Kant’s argument to establish the autonomy of the will, and hence the authority of moral demands over us, has not deterred his followers from trying to make good on this project. One strategy favored recently has been to turn back to the arguments of Groundwork II for help. Kant himself repeatedly claimed that these arguments are merely analytic but that they do not establish that there is anything that answers to the concepts he analyzes. The conclusions are thus fully co
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