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    There need be no infinite regress in the justification of practical rationality principles if those principles are constitutive of rational agency itself.

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    • 1.Principles that are constitutive of an activity provide justification without requiring a further external standard.
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    • 2.The principles of practical rationality are constitutive of rational agency.
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    • 3.Constitutive standards are justified by the nature of the object they define.
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    • 1.Constitutive rules of an activity can be internally coherent yet morally arbitrary, as chess rules constitute chess without justifying chess.
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    • 2.If rational agency itself admits of multiple incompatible specifications, constitutive grounding merely relocates rather than eliminates the regress.
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    • 3.Korsgaard's own account requires a 'reflective endorsement' step external to mere constitution, revealing that constitution alone is insufficient for normative authority.
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    • 1.Kant's own transcendental project required a 'fact of reason' beyond constitutive argument, suggesting constitution fails to close the justificatory gap.
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    • 2.A psychopath may satisfy all functional criteria of rational agency while systematically rejecting moral principles, falsifying the constitutive identity claim.
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    However, according to Korsgaard “there need be no such regress if there are principles that are constitutive of the very rational activities that we trying to perform” (2008: 5, 1996b: 164–67, 2009) In this formulation, the principles of practical rationality are constitutive of rational agency, in the sense that they are standards arising from and justified by the nature of the object in question (i.e., the rational agent). More specifically, unless the object conforms to the standard, it cease
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