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    Supports→If one can prove on independent grounds that something is an end in itself, one will have an argument for a categorical imperative

    There is an end in itself if and only if there is a categorical imperative binding on all rational agents as such

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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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