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    It is not the case that Happiness as such is the proper object of disinterested or impartial concern

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    • 1.The analogy between prudential and impartial concern commits a fallacy of composition: what holds for parts need not hold for the whole.
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    • 2.An agent's prudential concern for their own happiness is constitutively self-referential, making it structurally incompatible with impartial concern.
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    • 3.Sidgwick himself acknowledged this move requires an independent 'axiom of universal benevolence' not derivable from prudential reasoning alone.
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    • 1.Agent-relative reasons, as articulated by Nagel and Parfit, are ineliminable features of practical rationality and cannot be subsumed under impartial concern.
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    • 2.Happiness is partially constituted by whose happiness it is, meaning 'happiness as such' stripped of its bearer is not a coherent object of concern.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.The agent's own happiness is the object of prudential concern
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    • 2.The same relation that holds between an agent and their own happiness holds between an impartial perspective and happiness as such
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