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    Commitment to rational reflection requires valuing oneself as a rational being and valuing others who share this capacity equally.

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    • 1.Insofar as one is committed to rational reflection, one must value oneself as having this capacity.
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    • 2.Consistency requires that one value others who also have the capacity for rational reflection.
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    • 1.Rational reflection can reveal asymmetries in degree of rationality, grounding differential rather than equal valuation of rational agents.
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    • 2.Aristotle's ethics ties the value of persons to the actualization of rational capacities, not mere possession of them, undermining flat equality claims.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionist view of persons severs the link between valuing one's own rational capacity and valuing a persisting self worthy of special regard.
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    • 2.If no robust self exists to be valued through rational reflection, the consistency move from self-valuation to other-valuation collapses for lack of a stable first term.
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    Another strategy that is pursued by constructivists such as Korsgaard is to link the value ascribed to humans to the capacity for rational reflection. The idea is that insofar as I am committed to rational reflection, I must value myself as having this capacity, and consistently value others who have it as well. A similar strategy is found in Wielenberg’s form of ethical non-naturalism, since Wielenberg argues that it is necessarily true that any being with certain reflective capacities will hav
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