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    Moral value is grounded in the objective good of sentient... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The capacity to impose the moral law upon oneself is the ultimate source of all moral value.

    Moral value is grounded in the objective good of sentient beings, not in the act of self-legislation, as Aristotle and Philippa Foot argue.

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    • 1.Sentient beings have intrinsic capacity to suffer and flourish, providing an objective ground for moral value independent of human legislation.
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    • 2.Moral realism better explains our intuition that slavery was wrong even when legally permitted, suggesting morality transcends subjective decision-making.
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    • 3.Natural teleology in living beings (health, functioning, flourishing) provides objective moral facts without requiring autonomous rational will.
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    • 1.The 'objective good' of sentient beings cannot be specified without substantive value judgments that themselves require normative grounding.
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    • 2.Grounding morality in flourishing privileges particular conceptions of the good life, illegitimately constraining individual self-determination and diverse life-plans.
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    • 3.Sentience and flourishing lack the normative authority to obligate us morally unless we've already committed to valuing them as grounds for obligation.
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