Tournament: Newman Smith | Round: 2 | Opponent: Grapevine KB | Judge: Perrault
1NC
In order for an action to be moral, it must first be willed universally:
- 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:
"Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant" by Christine M. Korsgaard
"It remains to show that
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choice on which you act." (120-123)
And, only universally willing can be self-determined. KORSGAARD 2:
"Self-Constitution in the Ethics of Plato and Kant" by Christine M. Korsgaard
"The second step is to
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action of something within him." (123-124)
Analytic.
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:
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.
"We can give a more
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being conscious of her nexus."
Analytic.
Analytic.
3. Analytic.
Thus, the sufficient negative burden is to prove that the prohibition of the production of nuclear power cannot be willed as a universal principle.
Contention:
No empirical object is intrinsically valuable. Their value lies only in relationship to rational agency. KANT:
Immanuel Kant ~~~founder of analytic philosophy~~~ "Critique of Pure Reason" 1781
"We have therefore wanted to
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is alone given to us." (168)
Analytic.