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    It is not the case that One cannot rationally will a maxim of refusing to develop any of one's talents as a universal law of nature

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    • 1.Rational agency requires only the capacity to set and pursue ends, not the development of any particular talent or set of talents.
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    • 2.A being can consistently will universal inaction on talent development while retaining the rational agency sufficient to form and act on maxims.
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    • 3.Kant's inference from 'rational beings have ends' to 'rational beings necessarily will talent development' conflates having ends with having this specific end.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.Schiller and later Murdoch argue that moral worth can reside in cultivated receptivity and attention rather than active talent development.
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    • 2.A maxim of voluntary simplicity or contemplative withdrawal—universalized—need not undermine rational agency but may express a coherent, non-contradictory form of human flourishing.
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    • 3.The Formula of Universal Law tests logical and practical contradiction, but a world of universal contemplatives produces neither, undermining Kant's imperfect duty here.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.Insofar as we are rational, we necessarily will that all of our talents and abilities be developed
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    • 2.Willing a world in which no talents are developed contradicts what we, as rational beings, already necessarily will
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