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    It is not the case that 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'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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    • 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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