- the basic norms of practice may be inferred from the requirements of practical normativity - one need look no further than its indispensible constituents and other necessary conditions to discover what those norms are - that is the conclusion of the [conditional] analysis that follows - I begin with the question - the question is one of moral normativity - moral normativity being absolute, it applies throughout the domain of practical normativity, viz. that in which its necessary conditions hold - the necessary conditions of practical normativity include will, the power of a subject to bind itself to becoming a cause of an object as its effect, without which no norm could be applied