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    It is not the case that Korsgaard's constitutivism requires that agency is grounded in self-constitution through practical identity, not in any single inalienable desire.

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    • 1.Practical identities seem to require antecedent desires to be chosen and sustained—we desire to be parents, artists, or citizens before constituting those roles.
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    • 2.If agency grounds itself in identity alone, it becomes circular: we choose identities through agency, but agency requires identity. This lacks external justification.
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    • 3.Constitutivism struggles to explain why anyone should care about self-constitution itself rather than simply pursuing pleasure or avoiding pain.
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    • 1.Practical identity (parent, artist, citizen) genuinely motivates action without requiring a fixed underlying desire, explaining moral diversity.
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    • 2.Self-constitution through identity avoids the problem of grounding normativity in pre-rational desires, which cannot explain why we ought to care.
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    • 3.Humans continuously revise their identities and commitments, suggesting agency is constitutive rather than derived from static biological drives.
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