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It is not the case that Benevolence's delight in benevolence is an appropriate response to reality.
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A disposition's pleasure in itself is epistemically circular and cannot serve as evidence of its own appropriateness to reality.
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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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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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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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Benevolence is an appropriate response to reality.
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Benevolence is pleased by benevolence and relishes it for its own sake.
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