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    It is not the case that Humans virtually inevitably misconstrue their own interests and pursue them in misguided ways.

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    • 1.Aristotle's account of eudaimonia holds that humans possess a natural rational capacity to discern genuine flourishing through habituation and reflection.
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    • 2.If practical wisdom (phronesis) is an achievable human excellence, then systematic misconstrual of one's interests is the exception, not the virtual inevitability.
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    • 3.The supporting argument conflates the causal origins of beliefs with their epistemic status, committing a genetic fallacy about rational self-knowledge.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental unity of apperception entails that rational agents have a priori access to the moral law through pure practical reason, independent of contingent inclinations.
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    • 2.If agents can reliably identify the categorical imperative and bind their will to it, then misconstrual of genuine interests is not virtually inevitable but contingently corrigible.
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    • 1.We humans emerge and begin making choices in a context of ambiguity, ignorance, and misperception.
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    • 2.Behind our earliest choices lie a host of genetically determined inclinations and environmental (including social and cultural) influences.
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    • 3.As young children, we initially pursue our own needs and interests as we perceive (or misperceive) them.
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