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    Our conception of practical rationality must fit within o... — Carmelics
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    Our conception of practical rationality must fit within our overall conception of the human good.

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    • 1.Standards of rationality should derive from standards for goodness of the will.
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    • 2.Goodness of the will is understood within the broader context of the human good.
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    • 1.Practical rationality is constituted by formal constraints on consistency and coherence that are independent of any substantive conception of the good.
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    • 2.Kant's categorical imperative derives its authority from the structure of rational agency itself, not from facts about human flourishing or natural function.
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    • 3.A standard of rationality grounded in contingent human good cannot bind agents whose conception of their good differs, undermining rationality's universality.
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    • 1.Humean instrumentalism holds that rationality governs only the means-end relation; what counts as a good end is determined by desire, not by human nature.
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    • 2.If practical rationality is constrained by the human good, then agents with deviant but internally consistent desires are irrational by definition, conflating evaluative and rational failure.
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    Foot proposes that we reject the demand that moral actions fit with a preconceived notion of practical rationality, such as a desire-satisfaction conception, and, instead, we ought to adopt the view that moral considerations are one set of considerations that generate reasons, among others kinds of considerations that a rational agent must take into account (NG 11). After all, if practical rationality is held to be an authoritative guide to action as well as a virtue, surely practical rationalit
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