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    It is not the case that Discerning truths about particular ends is insufficient to determine whether those ends are morally justified.

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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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    • 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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