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+====In order for an action to be moral, it must first be willed universally: ==== |
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+====1. An agent's will acts on a law that it gives to itself. If pleasure were a law to you, then you would straightaway do the pleasurable act, but since you're autonomous, you can reason about taking the action. Thus a condition of action is that the will is self-determined. KORSGAARD: ==== |
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+**"Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant" by Christine M. Korsgaard** |
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+"It remains to show that this is also Kant's view; and for that |
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+the principle of choice on which you act." (120-123) |
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+====And, only universally willing can be self-determined. KORSGAARD 2: ==== |
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+**"Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant" by Christine M. Korsgaard** |
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+"The second step is to |
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+action of something within him." (123-124) |
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+Analytic. |
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+====2. Actions are expressions of an agent's reasoning from their end to the means, which unifies their action into a cohesive movement as opposed to fragmented steps. ROEDL: ==== |
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+**Sebastian Roedl. Prof. Of Philosophy, University of Leipzig. "Two Forms of Practical Knowledge and Their Unity" in Ford and Hornsby, Eds. Essays on Anscombe's Intention (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2011) 239.
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+"We can give a more specific description of the consciousness of temporal unity that |
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+different and conflicting results, which wouldn't allow you to unify your will. |
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+Analytic. |
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+Analytic. |
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+====3. Analytic. ==== |
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+ ==== Thus, the sufficient negative burden is to prove that the prohibition of the production of nuclear power cannot be willed as a universal principle. ==== |
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+Contention: |
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+====No empirical object is intrinsically valuable. Their value lies only in relationship to rational agency. KANT: ==== |
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+**Immanuel Kant ~~founder of analytic philosophy~~ "Critique of Pure Reason" 1781** |
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+"We have therefore wanted to |
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+which is alone given to us." (168) |
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+Analytic. |