... legislation of any basic maxim and to have such a reason.Kant’s own way out was simply to invoke the “fact of reason,” whichfrom the standpoint of the post-Kantians amounted more to stating the“paradox” ... the vassal by the master himself as author of the law? Themaster remains caught in the “Kantian paradox” without any real wayout; for his edicts to have the kind of normative authority he claims ... matter, asHegel points out, is an “I that is a We, and a We that is an I,” that is,Geist, a matter of sociality, not of individual awareness, desire, nor even of mere coordination of competing...