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    Challenges→There is a gap between Kant's analytic claim about means-ends rationality and the synthetic conclusion that rational agency requires conforming to the Categorical Imperative

    The means-ends principle is analytic of rational agency

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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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