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    It is not the case that Close friendship involves friends playing an active role in transforming each other's evaluative outlook.

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    • 1.Aristotle's highest form of friendship (virtue friendship) requires that each friend already possesses stable, complete virtue prior to the relationship.
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    • 2.If virtuous character is a precondition for perfect friendship rather than its product, then transformation of evaluative outlook marks an inferior, developmental friendship at best.
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    • 3.Therefore, close friendship in its fullest sense presupposes rather than produces the evaluative outlooks of its participants.
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    • 1.Kant's autonomy principle holds that rational agents must be the sole legislators of their own moral will, immune from external determination of their normative commitments.
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    • 2.Allowing a friend's values to actively reshape one's own evaluative framework constitutes heteronomous determination of one's practical reason.
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    • 3.Genuine respect between friends, on Kantian grounds, demands preserving each person's evaluative independence rather than cultivating mutual transformation.
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    • 1.In friendship, one is receptive to having one's friend direct and interpret oneself.
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    • 2.Being directed by a friend means allowing the friend's interests and values to shape one's own interests and values.
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    • 3.Being interpreted by a friend means allowing one's self-understanding to be shaped by the friend's interpretations.
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