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    Challenges→A basic human good is the proper object of rational will because its desirability is self-evident to anyone sufficiently intelligent and mature to understand its goodness.

    Hume's is-ought gap shows that understanding a good's contribution to flourishing cannot by itself generate rational necessity of will toward it.

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    • 1.Descriptive facts about flourishing (what promotes human welfare) are logically distinct from normative claims (what we ought to do).
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    • 2.A person can intellectually acknowledge that X contributes to flourishing yet rationally choose not to pursue X without logical contradiction.
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    • 3.Without an independent normative premise linking flourishing to obligation, factual premises about goods cannot entail a rational duty of will.
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    • 1.If an agent rationally desires flourishing as their fundamental end, then facts about what promotes it rationally necessitate pursuit of those means.
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    • 2.The is-ought gap applies to arbitrary values, but flourishing may be constitutive of rational agency itself, not merely externally valued.
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    • 3.Hume's gap concerns deriving ought from pure facts, but understanding something as genuinely good involves practical, not merely theoretical, knowledge.
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