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    It is not the case that Our conception of practical rationality must fit within our overall conception 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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    • 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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