Kantian prohibitions count as agentrelative because agents reason to accept them
Evidence
Indeed, in the classic Kantian formulation, even the strictest prohibition against killing is agentrelative in the sense that the prohibition exists as a result of the individual agent having reasoned herself to the point of accepting it as a categorical imperative. — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere, 131
Categorization
- DEFINE: Clarifies the surprising sense in which even deontological rules qualify as agentrelative.
- XREF: connects to: Perfect impartiality dissolves the self-attribution that makes action meaningful — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 134; The determinist denial of agency is itself a moral position of nonaccountability