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    It is not the case that A basic human good is the proper object of rational will because its desirability is self-evident to anyone sufficiently intelligent and mature to understand its goodness.

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    • 1.Hume's is-ought gap shows that understanding a good's contribution to flourishing cannot by itself generate rational necessity of will toward it.
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    • 2.The move from 'this promotes human flourishing' to 'the will is thereby rationally bound to pursue it' smuggles in a normative premise not found in the descriptive understanding of the good.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of akrasia demonstrates that agents can fully understand a good's desirability while failing to be moved by it, severing self-evidence from rational volition.
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    • 2.If self-evident goodness reliably produced rational willing, weakness of will would be conceptually impossible rather than a widely documented feature of human moral psychology.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Will is intelligent response to intelligible good.
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    • 2.Basic human goods contribute to human flourishing and fulfillment.
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    • 3.Self-evident desirability makes each basic good the object of an inclination in the will of anyone who understands it.
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