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    It is not the case that Morality is a creative enterprise requiring engagement of the whole person

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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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    • 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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