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    A moral agent's distinctive perspective and inclinations toward action are shaped by biological factors rather than by reason alone.

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    • 1.Temperament colors a moral agent's distinctive perspective and inclinations toward action.
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    • 2.Temperament is predominantly determined by biological factors.
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    • 1.Kant argues that moral agency requires autonomy: the capacity of reason to legislate independently of all inclinations, biological or otherwise.
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    • 2.Biological temperament, as a form of natural inclination, belongs to the phenomenal self and cannot determine the noumenal will's moral orientation.
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    • 3.Therefore, insofar as an agent acts morally, their perspective is shaped by rational self-legislation, not biological factors.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of habituation (ethismos) holds that moral character is formed through repeated voluntary actions, not biological endowment.
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    • 2.If virtue is acquired through practice and choice, then reason and agency are the primary shapers of moral perspective, not biology.
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    Predominantly determined by biological factors, temperament colors a moral agent’s distinctive perspective and inclinations toward action. Even the wise use of reason to discipline one’s action cannot alter the basic temperament with which the moral agent must confront ethical dilemmas.
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