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    Kant's conception of freedom should be understood in term... — Carmelics
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    Kant's conception of freedom should be understood in terms of the freedom and spontaneity of reason itself.

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    • 1.In Groundwork III, Kant apparently identifies the will with practical reason.
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    • 2.If the will is practical reason, then freedom of the will is the freedom of reason.
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    • 1.Kant distinguishes Wille (legislative reason) from Willkür (executive choice), and moral responsibility attaches primarily to Willkür.
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    • 2.Willkür's freedom involves the capacity to incorporate incentives into maxims, which is not reducible to the spontaneity of reason alone.
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    • 3.Therefore, collapsing freedom into rational spontaneity erases the very site of imputation that Kant's moral psychology requires.
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    • 1.Allison's 'incorporation thesis' notwithstanding, Henry Sidgwick and later P.F. Strawson argue that moral responsibility requires a causal power to do otherwise, not merely rational self-legislation.
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    • 2.Kant's own account of radical evil in Religion within the Bounds of Mere Reason presupposes that agents can freely adopt evil maxims despite possessing rational spontaneity.
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    • 3.If rational spontaneity were sufficient for freedom, the adoption of evil maxims would be inexplicable, suggesting freedom must involve something beyond reason's self-governance.
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    A different interpretive strategy, which has gained prominence in recent years, focuses on Kant’s apparent identification, in Groundwork III, of the will and practical reason. One natural way of interpreting Kant’s conception of freedom is to understand it in terms of the freedom and spontaneity of reason itself. This in turn apparently implies that our wills are necessarily aimed at what is rational and reasonable. To will something, on this picture, is to govern oneself in accordance with reas
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