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    Rational agents must take the means to their ends — Carmelics
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    • Taking the means to one's ends is analytic of rational agency
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    • 1.Rationality permits revising or abandoning ends rather than always taking means to them (Bratman, 'Intention, Plans, and Practical Reason').
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    • 2.If abandoning an end is always available, the hypothetical imperative yields no determinate requirement to take means.
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    • 1.Willing an end does not entail willing all necessary means—agents can coherently will ends while remaining agnostic about which means to pursue (Korsgaard, 'The Normativity of Instrumental Reason').
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    • 2.The analyticity claim conflates the normativity of practical reason with a merely descriptive psychological connection between volition and action.
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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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