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    Acting for duty AND expecting happiness-completion are co... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→If moral worthiness requires happiness as its completion, then moral agents are ultimately acting for the sake of their own felicity, undermining the categorical nature of the moral law.

    Acting for duty AND expecting happiness-completion are compatible: one can acknowledge an outcome's desirability while acting from principled obligation, not desire.

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