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    It is not the case that Integrity necessary for agency cannot be achieved without a commitment to morality 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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    • 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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