/lit/ - Literature

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I don't understand why he decides that human autonomy is necessarily valuable and worthy of respect. I get the categorical imperative so far as it involves universalization of maxims and avoidance of contradiction, but it seems as though he just came up with the autonomy thing to cover his bases so that anything that the CI doesn't prevent people from doing can be reframed as "don't do that, it violates autonomy and that's bad for reasons."

Tell me what I misunderstand, because I have no doubt in my mind that Kant was smarter than I am.

I spent like $150 on books recently and most have arrived in the mail and I dont feel like reading any of them...anyone else know this feel? How do I overcome it?