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    It is not the case that The Categorical Imperative can fully ground our conception of what morality requires of us

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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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    • 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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