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    It is not the case that Frankfurt's work on free will shows that agents can be compelled by external conditions without this nullifying the authenticity of their resulting choices.

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    • 1.If external conditions fully determine which desires an agent endorses, the endorsement itself loses independent agency.
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    • 2.Distinguishing 'true self' (second-order desires) from 'false self' (first-order) is metaphysically dubious without principled criteria.
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    • 3.Compelled choices systematically undermine the control necessary for moral responsibility, regardless of internal consistency.
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    • 1.Authenticity requires alignment between action and an agent's true desires, not absence of external influence on those desires.
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    • 2.Frankfurt's hierarchical model shows agents can endorse their first-order desires reflectively, making them genuinely their own.
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    • 3.All desire formation involves prior causal conditions; rejecting this would make any desire inauthentic, collapsing the concept.
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