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    Morality is a creative enterprise requiring engagement of the whole person

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    • 1.Ethics applies itself to the creative power in man
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    • 2.Ethics awakens man's creative, spontaneous, living sense of what ought to be and what is intrinsically valuable
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    • 3.Moral life demands a discerning sense for values and creative efforts at synthesis
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    • 1.Kant's deontological ethics grounds morality in universal rational principles that any agent can apply without creative synthesis or personal temperament.
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    • 2.If morality required creative engagement of the whole person, moral obligations would vary by individual capacity, undermining the universalizability that obligation demands.
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    • 3.Hartmann conflates aesthetic creativity with moral reasoning, which are distinct faculties operating under different normative standards.
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    • 1.Aristotle's own virtue ethics locates moral excellence in stable, habituated dispositions rather than spontaneous creative acts, suggesting reliability over creativity as the moral ideal.
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    • 2.A morality dependent on creative engagement privileges those with cultivated sensibility, introducing an aristocratic bias that undermines equal moral standing across persons.
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    The same kind of argument used in the previous work, which begins with complex “facts” and reasons to their necessary conditions, is used in the Ethics. Hartmann held that the phenomena of moral exemplarity, the idealization of moral types, the phenomena of self-criticism and accountability, conscience, and even the historical dominance of content-oriented virtue theory, all testify to an a priori, intuitive sense for values. But Hartmann does not erect an intuitionism of values out of this. A p
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