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    It is not the case that If the self-reflection grounding moral obligation is idealized, then everyday reflective choice is insufficient to confer moral status.

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    • 1.Korsgaard's account is ambiguous about whether the self-reflection grounding obligation is idealized or ordinary.
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    • 2.If the relevant capacity is the idealized ability to reflect rationally in a full sense, then ordinary everyday reflection does not meet the threshold.
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    • 3.Moral status on this view would require the more rarified rational capacity, not mere introspection and choice.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental unity of apperception requires a legislating rational will that transcends empirical psychological states, not mere contingent preference-reflection.
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    • 2.Ordinary introspective choice remains bound to inclination and causal history, failing to achieve the self-legislating autonomy Kant identifies as the ground of dignity.
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    • 3.Korsgaard's constitutivism inherits this Kantian demand: the normative authority of practical identity requires reflective endorsement from a standpoint purified of heteronomous influence.
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    • 1.Frankfurt's hierarchical account shows that mere first-order reflection lacks authority unless grounded in a wholeheartedly endorsed higher-order volition, establishing a structural gap between everyday and normatively sufficient reflection.
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    • 2.A reflective capacity that can be defeated by weakness of will, self-deception, or adaptive preference formation cannot serve as the unconditional ground moral status requires.
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