Part I, inferring the rights + Begin with the precarious conditions, for there I feel most vulnerable. \ ? Conditions of what? - These conditions are requirements of willing the obligatory end, the search for knowledge that reason or morality demands. • Ends justification is (directly) necessary to both of those searches. \ untrue!! \ - One could seek moral certainty for sake of appearing virtuous. \ - Scholarly curiosity alone might prompt a search for moral certainty. ∵ One must critically examine one’s ends to ensure that no unjustifiable end conflicts with a bounden end, as that would be contrary to duty. : see @ ~/code/WP3/way/ethic/precarious_conditions.brec - Such a conflict would not be open to arbitration by prudence because an unjustifiable end weighs nothing in the balance against duty. : see @ ~/code/WP3/way/ethic/precarious_conditions.brec - More to the point, it is the moral search that entails practical reasoning which then entails or includes (if not comprises) ends justification. : cf. `^^ends justification$`i @ `^^entailment by duty`i @ ~/code/WP3/way/ethic/precarious_conditions.brec : ‘Willing the [moral end] entails, *through practical reasoning*, a requirement for ends justification.’ + Do not claim ends justification as a condition of the *rational* search, as its relation to that is less clear. ? What is left of practical reason after I subtract ends justification? - Its normative force, if nothing else. - Rather bring in the moral leg (perhaps explicitly) for that purpose. ?+ Using what rhetorical device. • Personal freedom is (directly) necessary to both of those searches (especially if ends justification is). ∵ Personal freedom is a condition both of ends justification and the search. - The requirement in regard to the search is boundless, as the sought object is entirely|wholly unknown in advance. - The crucial freedom here is that of intercommunication. \ - These conditions are requirements of rational will|willing. \ / Of willing a reasonable|justifiable end, an end obligated by reason or morality. \ / Of a rational|sound|good will. \\ !! The qualification ‘rational’ here (on which my claims would hinge) is groundless. \ ! This yields only the narrowest support for freedom of action, \ namely action to sustain thought. \ - Rather: \ - Ends justification requires personal freedom, \ as does the obligatory search for knowledge. \ : see `^^a condition both of ends justification, and the search.$` \ \ - Rational willing requires prospective freedom of action \ \ - As Kant says, [practical] reason must view itself as free. \ \ - One cannot reaonably will an end that one believes is closed off \ \ by constraints against action. \ \\ !! This is dubious. - Consider inferring the precarious conditions from the rational leg of the argument alone. - Probably the premise and initial principles will have to be corrected by enlarging them beyond the axiologic basis to a justificatory one. / So justificatory uncertainty, for instance, and a corresponding demand to seek knowledge there. - Then the moral leg can enter by recognizing that the demand of reason might also be met by an end that is *justified* in itself by being a moral obligation. / Viz. value is not the only criterion. justification : see https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/reasons-just-vs-expl/ : *Reasons for action: justification, motivation, explanation*