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    Benevolence's delight in benevolence is an appropriate response to reality.

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    • 1.Benevolence is an appropriate response to reality.
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    • 2.Benevolence is pleased by benevolence and relishes it for its own sake.
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    • 1.A disposition's pleasure in itself is epistemically circular and cannot serve as evidence of its own appropriateness to reality.
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    • 2.Hume's is-ought gap entails that a benevolent agent's relishing benevolence establishes a psychological fact, not a normative one.
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    • 1.Kant argues that moral worth requires acting from duty, not from affective self-reinforcement, making benevolence's delight in itself morally suspect.
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    • 2.A virtuous disposition that takes pleasure in its own exercise risks collapsing into what Kant calls pathological self-love dressed in moral clothing.
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    Edwards' defense of the objectivity of the new spiritual sense has four steps. (1) Benevolence agrees with the nature of things. The world is an interconnected system of minds and ideas in which the only true substance and cause is an infinite and omnipotent love. Human benevolence is thus an appropriate or fitting response to reality. (2) Benevolence is pleased by benevolence; it relishes it, or delights in it, for its own sake. Since benevolence is an appropriate response to reality, so too is
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