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    It is not the case that Evaluative hedonism is inconsistent with psychological hedonism.

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    • 1.Evaluative hedonism requires that agents aim to maximize a sum of pleasures.
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    • 2.Psychological hedonism holds that pleasurable experience is the ultimate object of desire.
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    • 3.A sum of pleasures is not itself a pleasure.
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    • 1.Psychological hedonism, as formulated by Bentham, holds that individuals are governed solely by the pursuit of their own pleasure.
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    • 2.Evaluative hedonism, also in Bentham, demands impartial maximization of aggregate pleasure across all persons.
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    • 3.An agent constitutionally bound to pursue only personal pleasure cannot be genuinely motivated to sacrifice it for strangers' greater pleasure.
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    • 1.Sidgwick argued that the 'dualism of practical reason' reveals that self-interest and universal benevolence issue irreconcilable rational demands.
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    • 2.If psychological hedonism is true, the motivational structure of rational agency is egoistic and cannot be overridden by impartial evaluative demands.
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    • 3.Therefore, evaluative hedonism's impartial standard presupposes a motivational capacity that psychological hedonism systematically excludes.
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