Kant’s Derivation of the Formula of the Categorical Imperative: How to Get it Right

Kant Studien 89 (2):167-178 (1998)
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This paper explores the charge by Bruce Aune and Allen Wood that a gap exists in Kant's derivation of the Categorical Imperative. I show that properly understood, no such gap exists, and that the deduction of the Categorical Imperative is successful as it stands.

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The Emptiness of the Moral Will.Allen W. Wood - 1989 - The Monist 72 (3):454-483.

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