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    It is not the case that 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

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    • 1.The means-ends principle is analytic of rational agency
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    • 2.Conforming to a non-desire based principle like the CI is a further, synthetic requirement
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    • 3.Analytic claims cannot by themselves establish synthetic conclusions
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    • 1.Kant's own Groundwork derivation moves from 'will' to 'pure will' via a separable metaphysical step that introduces autonomy as a distinct normative source.
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    • 2.Christine Korsgaard concedes in 'Self-Constitution' that the reflective endorsement move requires a substantive commitment to one's rational nature that is not contained in mere means-ends reasoning.
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    • 3.A derivation requiring substantive commitments beyond its starting concept introduces content that is synthetic, not merely explicative of what was already implicit.
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    • 1.Hypothetical imperatives bind only agents with relevant desires, while the CI claims unconditional authority over all rational beings regardless of their contingent motivational states.
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    • 2.Henry Allison's 'incorporation thesis' shows that even Kant's own account of rational action requires a separate act of will-adoption that is not analytically entailed by having a purpose.
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    • 3.Unconditional authority cannot be derived from conditional, desire-indexed rationality without an ampliative inferential step that generates genuinely new normative content.
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