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    There are realist elements in Kant's moral philosophy, re... — Carmelics
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    There are realist elements in Kant's moral philosophy, regardless of whether Kant himself was ultimately a moral realist.

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    • 1.Kant treated dignity as a value beings of a certain kind must have, implying a mind-independent normative fact.
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    • 2.Kant's moral philosophy is tied to metaphysical claims about the noumenal status of persons.
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    • 3.These commitments push toward moral realism rather than pure constructivism.
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    • 1.Kant's 'dignity' is derived from rational autonomy, making its normative force agent-constituted rather than mind-independent.
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    • 2.Christine Korsgaard's constitutivism shows Kantian value is self-legislated, not discovered in a realist moral ontology.
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    • 3.A value grounded in the structure of rational agency need not imply realism, since its source remains the legislating will itself.
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    • 1.Kant's noumenal realm is epistemically inaccessible, so grounding moral facts there renders them unknowable, not mind-independent.
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    • 2.Rawls's 'Kantian constructivism' demonstrates that Kant's moral framework is coherently reconstructed without any realist metaphysical commitments.
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    • 3.The presence of metaphysical vocabulary in Kant does not entail realism if that vocabulary functions regulatively rather than descriptively.
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    It is, however, controversial whether Kant himself was a constructivist in this sense. One reason to question whether this is the right way to read Kant follows from the fact that Kant himself did not see morality as free from metaphysical commitments. For example, Kant thought that it would be impossible for someone who believed that mechanistic determinism was the literal truth about himself to believe that he was a moral agent, since morality requires an autonomy that is incompatible with det
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