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    It is not the case that Kant's conception of freedom should be understood in terms of the freedom and spontaneity of reason itself.

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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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    • 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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