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    Dwelling on reward and punishment diminishes affections towards public good

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    • 1.Moral motivation grounded in external incentives crowds out intrinsic concern for others, as Kant argues that acting from inclination toward reward corrupts moral worth.
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    • 2.When virtuous action is habitually associated with personal gain, the affective disposition toward others' welfare is reconditioned into self-regarding calculation.
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    • 3.Shaftesbury's moral sense theory holds that genuine benevolence requires disinterested sentiment, which instrumentalizing frameworks systematically erode over time.
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    • 1.Aristotle's account of habituation establishes that repeatedly performing actions for extrinsic reasons develops character traits oriented toward self-interest rather than virtue.
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    • 2.A character trait oriented primarily toward self-interest generates motivational structures that are phenomenologically incompatible with spontaneous benevolent affection.
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    • 1.Focusing on reward and punishment leads people to prioritize self-good and private interest
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    • 2.Prioritizing self-good and private interest insensibly diminishes affections towards public good and the interest of society
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    People who dwell on reward and punishment are more likely to become overly concerned with their own “Self-good, and private Interest,” which must “insensibly diminish the Affections towards publick Good, or the Interest of Society and introduce a certain Narrowness of spirit” (C 2.58). Stressing reward and punishment cannot make people more virtuous, and it may very well make them less so (C 1.97–98, 2.52–56). It is for this reason that Shaftesbury has one of his characters in The Moralists say
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