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    The Categorical Imperative can fully ground our conception of what morality requires of us

    Moral Responsibility
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    • 1.The Categorical Imperative does not enshrine existing interests
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    • 2.The Categorical Imperative presumes that rational agents can conform to a principle that does not appeal to their interests
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    • 3.An autonomous principle is one that does not appeal to agents' interests
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    • 1.The Categorical Imperative generates contradictory duties in cases of moral conflict, as Hegel argued in his 'empty formalism' objection.
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    • 2.A principle that cannot adjudicate between competing duties lacks the action-guiding completeness required to fully ground morality.
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    • 3.Bernard Williams's integrity objection shows that purely formal principles sever agents from the ground projects constitutive of moral identity.
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    • 1.Aristotle's virtue ethics demonstrates that moral requirements are grounded in human flourishing and character, not formal universalizability.
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    • 2.Foot and Anscombe argue that detaching moral obligation from natural teleology renders Kantian 'must' claims unintelligible without theological backing.
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    • 3.If the source of moral normativity requires a substantive account of human nature, then formal rationality alone cannot fully ground moral requirements.
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    Although most of Kant’s readers understand the property of autonomy as being a property of rational wills, some, such as Thomas E. Hill, have held that Kant’s central idea is that of autonomy is a property, not primarily of wills, but of principles. The core idea is that Kant believed that all moral theories prior to his own went astray because they portrayed fundamental moral principles as appealing to the existing interests of those bound by them. By contrast, in Kant’s view moral principles m
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