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    It is not the case that If rationality required aiming at developing all of one's talents, the further steps of the Categorical Imperative procedure would be unnecessary to show that refusing to develop talents is immoral

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    • 1.If, insofar as we are rational, we must will to develop capacities, then it is by that very fact irrational not to do so
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    • 2.Showing an action to be irrational on its own would suffice to condemn it without needing the universalizability test
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    • 1.Kant's Formula of Universal Law tests the form of maxims, not merely the rationality of individual volitions, making it irreducible to consistency requirements.
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    • 2.Christine Korsgaard argues that universalizability adds a distinctly social dimension—the standpoint of humanity—that bare rationality constraints on individuals cannot supply.
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    • 3.An agent could irrationally neglect talents while still producing a universalizable maxim, showing the two tests track different normative failures.
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    • 1.Rationality requirements in Kant are hypothetical unless grounded in the categorical demand that humanity be treated as an end, per the Formula of Humanity.
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    • 2.Even if developing talents were rationally required, the CI procedure is needed to determine which talents, to what degree, and under what social conditions—questions bare rationality cannot resolve.
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