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    It is not the case that Korsgaard's constitutivism holds that rational agency requires the agent to reflectively endorse the source of motivation, not merely undergo a causal process triggered by reason-recognition.

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    • 1.Requiring reflective endorsement creates infinite regress: must agents endorse their endorsement-capacities? Where does justification terminate?
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    • 2.Many rational actions occur without conscious reflective endorsement—quick logical inference, perceptual judgment—yet remain genuinely rational.
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    • 3.Constitutivism conflates agency with self-consciousness; non-human animals act rationally without reflective endorsement capacities.
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    • 1.Mere causal response to recognized reasons leaves agents passive; reflective endorsement is necessary for genuine agency and autonomy.
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    • 2.Without endorsing motivation sources, agents could be perfectly rational yet enslaved to alien desires—a conceptual problem constitutivism solves.
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    • 3.Rational agents characteristically step back to evaluate their own motivations; this reflective distance distinguishes rationality from instinct.
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