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See Onora O’Neill, “Consistency in Action,” in Constructions of Reason (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1989), pp. 81–104; Barbara Herman, “Moral Deliberation and the Derivation of Duties,” in The Practice of Moral Judgment (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1993), pp. 132–158; and Christine Korsgaard, “Kant’s Formula of Universal Law” in Creating the Kingdom of Ends (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), pp. 77–105.
See Derek Parfit, On What Matters, forthcoming; and Herman, ibid. See also O’Neill, ibid., Thomas E. Hill, Jr., Dignity and Practical Reason in Kant’s Moral Theory (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1992), and Michael Rohlf, “Kant on Determining One’s Duty: A Middle Course Between Rawls and Herman,” Kant-Studien, forthcoming.
See Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Kants gesammelte Schriften ed. Königlichen Preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter, 1902–) vol. 4, pp. 402, 421, 437, abr. Ak 4:402, 421, 437; also see Kant, op. cit., Ak 4:400n, 420–421n, 438.
Kant, op. cit., Ak 4:424.
See Korsgaard, op. cit.
Kant, “On a Supposed Right to Lie from Philanthropy,” in Mary J. Gregor, Practical Philosophy (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1996), Ak 8:425.
See ibid., Ak 8:426, 427.
Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Ak 4:424.
Ibid., Ak 4:429.
See Rohlf, op. cit..
Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Ak 4:429–430.
Ibid., Ak 4:430.
Ibid., Ak 4:429–430.
Ibid., Ak 4:432; see also Ak 4:431, 433.
Ibid., Ak 4:431; see also Ak 4:432.
See Allen W. Wood, Kant’s Ethical Thought (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1999), and Wood, Kantian Ethics (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 2008), and Rohlf, op. cit.; also see Kant, op. cit., Ak 4:436–439.
See Kant, op. cit., Ak 4:421–423, 429–430.
See ibid., Ak 4:436.
Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Ak 5:124; see also Ak 5:22, 61; and Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Ak 4:393, 399, 405.
See Derek Parfit, Reasons and Persons (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986), Appendix I; see also Richard Kraut, “Desire and the Human Good,” Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association vol. 68, no. 2 (1994).
Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Ak 5:22–25, 60.
See Andrews Reath, “Hedonism, Heteronomy, and Kant’s Principle of Happiness,” in Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 70 (1989).
Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Ak 5:22.
Ibid, Ak 5:25.
Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, trans. modified, Ak 4:418.
Ibid.
See David Sussman, “The Authority of Humanity,” Ethics 113 (2003).
See Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Ak 4:437.
See ibid., Ak 4:438.
See Parfit, op. cit; see also Korsgaard, “The Right to Lie: Kant on Dealing with Evil” in Korsgaard, op. cit., pp. 133–158.
I would like to thank audiences at Trinity University, Brown University, and the Eastern Study Group of the North American Kant Society at the University of Southern Maine, where versions of this paper were presented, for stimulating comments and discussion; Rahul Kumar, Elisabeth Herschbach, and Charles Larmore for written comments on the paper; participants in the Upstate New York Early Modern Philosophy Workshop at Syracuse University, especially Fred Beiser for commenting on earlier material related to section five; and an anonymous referee and Thomas Magnell, the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Value Inquiry, for their comments and help.
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Rohlf, M. Contradiction and Consent in Kant’s Ethics. J Value Inquiry 43, 507–520 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10790-009-9166-8
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