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    Discerning truths about particular ends is insufficient to determine whether those ends are morally justified.

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    • 1.Moral justification of an end requires reference to the moral quality of that end.
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    • 2.The moral quality of an end is not disclosed by factual truths about that end alone, but only through a moral sense.
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    • 1.Kant's categorical imperative demonstrates that the moral status of ends is determined by rational consistency tests, not by any affective moral sense.
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    • 2.If reason alone can reveal whether an end treats humanity as mere means or as an end-in-itself, then factual-rational discernment is sufficient for moral justification.
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    • 3.Hutcheson's appeal to a moral sense merely relocates the normative question rather than answering it, since the reliability of that sense itself requires rational vindication.
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    • 1.Aristotelian practical wisdom (phronesis) holds that discerning the true nature of particular ends—including their relation to eudaimonia—just is moral justification.
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    • 2.If grasping that health or friendship genuinely constitutes flourishing suffices to justify pursuing them, no separate moral faculty beyond reason is required.
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    When it comes to justifying reasons, Hutcheson believes that one cannot genuinely justify an action without reference to a moral sense. As Hutcheson notes, one cannot justify an action simply by noting that it conforms to a true proposition, as this would justify every possible action (Essay, 144). Furthermore, even if we focus on particular truths that may be said about particular actions (such as, e.g., “a Truth shewing an Action to be fit to attain an End”), these truths do not genuinely just
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