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    If one chooses to live, one must value one's own long-ter... — Carmelics
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    If one chooses to live, one must value one's own long-term survival as an ultimate end and morality as a necessary means to that end.

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    • 1.Morality is based on a hypothetical imperative conditioned on the choice to live.
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    • 2.There is no duty to survive; survival is a chosen ultimate end.
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    • 3.Choosing to live commits one to valuing the conditions necessary for long-term survival.
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    • 1.Parfit's reductionist view of personal identity entails that 'long-term survival of oneself' is not a coherent ultimate end, since future selves are not strictly identical to present ones.
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    • 2.If the entity whose survival is valued changes substantially over time, rational self-interest cannot ground a unified ultimate end across a lifetime.
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    • 1.Aristotle's eudaimonia requires flourishing defined by function and virtue, not survival per se—meaning morality aims at living well, not merely living long.
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    • 2.Rand's conflation of survival with flourishing smuggles in a richer normative standard than biological persistence without justifying the substitution.
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    Rand’s naturalism, and her rejection of intrinsicism and subjectivism in favor of objectivism, anticipate recent naturalisms and echo Aristotle’s argument, against both the Platonist and the subjectivist, that “the good” must always be good-for-something. Her conception of the function of morality is notable both for its affinity to, and its difference from, Thomas Hobbes’ conception: like Hobbes, Rand sees morality as a necessary means to long-term survival, but unlike Hobbes, she does not see
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