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    It is not the case that If moral worthiness requires happiness as its completion, then moral agents are ultimately acting for the sake of their own felicity, undermining the categorical nature of the moral law.

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    • 1.Happiness as moral completion need not be the agent's primary motivation; it can be morality's proper consequence without undermining moral duty's categorical status.
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    • 2.Acting for duty AND expecting happiness-completion are compatible: one can acknowledge an outcome's desirability while acting from principled obligation, not desire.
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    • 3.Many virtuous acts yield no happiness; happiness-completion may describe an ideal proportionality rather than agents' actual motivational structure or moral worth.
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    • 1.Kant distinguished hypothetical imperatives (contingent on desires) from categorical imperatives (unconditional duties). Happiness-completion collapses this distinction.
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    • 2.If moral agents necessarily pursue happiness as morality's ultimate end, their moral actions are instrumentally motivated, not intrinsically obligatory.
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    • 3.The categorical imperative's authority lies in reason alone. Tying it to happiness outcomes makes morality depend on contingent empirical conditions.
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