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    It is not the case that If grasping that health or friendship genuinely constitutes flourishing suffices to justify pursuing them, no separate moral faculty beyond reason is required.

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    • 1.Grasping that health flourishes does not automatically motivate pursuit; akrasia shows knowledge alone cannot compel action.
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    • 2.Reason identifies what IS, but moral motivation requires commitment to what OUGHT to be—a gap reason cannot bridge alone.
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    • 3.Different cultures rationally endorse conflicting values; reason needs a separate faculty to adjudicate genuinely binding obligations.
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    • 1.Reason can identify what constitutes human flourishing through reflection on our nature and capacities.
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    • 2.Once we rationally grasp that X genuinely contributes to flourishing, pursuing X follows necessarily without additional motivation.
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    • 3.Positing a separate moral faculty duplicates explanatory work already performed by reason and creates unnecessary metaphysical complexity.
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