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    Natural parts of the self that are congenial to morality ... — Carmelics
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    Natural parts of the self that are congenial to morality become the basis for satisfaction in virtue once self-aggrandizing desires are controlled

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    • 1.Natural emotional dispositions such as love of one's own kind are largely congenial to morality
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    • 2.Once self-aggrandizing desires and emotions are brought under control, these natural parts provide the basis for taking great satisfaction and contentment in virtue
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    • 1.Natural emotional dispositions like kin-preference are often parochial and generate moral failures such as nepotism and in-group bias.
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    • 2.Controlling self-aggrandizing desires does not neutralize the moral distortions embedded in the natural dispositions themselves.
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    • 3.Xunzi's corrective: human nature requires active ritual reshaping, not mere subtraction of excess, to become reliably virtuous.
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    • 1.Kantian ethics holds that inclinations grounded in natural feeling lack the categorical necessity required for genuine moral worth.
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    • 2.Satisfaction derived from congenial natural dispositions remains contingent on temperament, making virtue dependent on morally arbitrary facts about the self.
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    Controlling self-aggrandizing desires does not neutralize the moral distortions ...Kantian ethics holds that inclinations grounded in natural feeling lack the cate...Natural emotional dispositions like kin-preference are often parochial and gener...Natural emotional dispositions such as love of one's own kind are largely congen...
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    Each thinker emphasizes one of these opposing directions, but it is a credit to the subtlety and power of their views that each also takes into account the direction that the other emphasizes. Mencius acknowledges that moral development is hindered when a person pays more attention to the “small” parts of the self that include desires for sensual and material satisfaction and fails to use the heart-mind to reflect on the great parts that have normative priority. In the chapter on rituals, Xunzi
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