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    Integrity necessary for agency cannot be achieved without a commitment to morality founded on reason.

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    • 1.Some kind of integrity is necessary to be an agent.
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    • 2.Integrity requires coherent reflective self-government guided by universal principles.
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    • 3.Universal principles of self-government are grounded in morality, which is founded on reason.
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    • 1.Aristotle's phronimos achieves integrity through cultivated character and practical wisdom, not universal rational principles.
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    • 2.Practical wisdom (phronesis) is context-sensitive and particular, resisting reduction to reason-based universal moral laws.
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    • 3.Therefore, integrity sufficient for agency can be grounded in virtue and habituation without a foundational commitment to Kantian-style moral reason.
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    • 1.Bernard Williams argued that integrity consists in fidelity to one's ground projects, which may conflict with impartial moral demands of reason.
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    • 2.Forcing all commitments through a universal rational moral filter can alienate agents from the very projects that constitute their identity.
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    • 3.An integrity that destroys the agent's constitutive commitments in service of moral reason cannot be necessary for agency.
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    Korsgaard (1996a) offers a transcendental argument for the conclusion that what we ought to do is justified by the norms that govern and constitute our rational agency. She argues that valuing humanity, where humanity is understood as the capacity for rationality, is the condition of the possibility of valuing anything at all (Korsgaard 1996a: 121–123; Korsgaard 1998: 60–62). In deliberating, we attribute to ourselves the power to confer value on our ends by rationally choosing them. According t
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