 Korsgaard’s use of a transcendental argument in fact forms only part of a wider response to skeptical worries about the demands of morality (‘the normative question’), and is deployed merely to convince the skeptic that her own humanity has value, from which a further argument concerning the publicity of reasons is used to show that she must also then value the humanity of others. The transcendental argument that Korsgaard proposes is modelled on a position which she finds in Kant and which she outlines as follows: