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    It is not the case that Freedom may consist in the ability to follow one's own reasonable judgment concerning the best course of action in a given situation.

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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical compatibilism shows freedom requires not just following reasonable judgment, but endorsing one's will at a higher-order level.
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    • 2.An agent can act on reasonable first-order judgments while failing to identify with those judgments, making such action unfree in the morally relevant sense.
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    • 3.Therefore, reasonable judgment-following is insufficient as a complete account of freedom because it neglects the reflective endorsement condition.
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    • 1.Kant's account of autonomy holds that genuine freedom consists in self-legislation according to universal rational principle, not mere pursuit of what seems best to the individual.
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    • 2.An agent's 'reasonable judgment concerning the best course' may reflect heteronomous inclinations, cultural conditioning, or self-deception rather than pure practical reason.
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    • 3.A freedom defined by subjective reasonable judgment collapses the crucial Kantian distinction between autonomy and sophisticated self-interest, undermining its normative force.
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    • 1.The relevant freedom requires a minimal degree of rationality.
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    • 2.If a relevant threshold of rationality requires only an ability to make reasonable judgments rather than infallible ones concerning the best course of action, then freedom can be understood as the ability to follow one's own reasonable judgment.
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