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    Power is what is non-morally valuable or good for an agent — Carmelics
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    Power is what is non-morally valuable or good for an agent

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    • 1.Principle (P) is valid
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    • 2.Value Nihilism is false
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    • 3.Nietzsche's descriptive doctrine of the will to power is true, namely that all persons intrinsically desire only power
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    • 1.Nietzsche's descriptive will-to-power doctrine conflates a metaphysical hypothesis about drives with a normative claim about what agents should value.
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    • 2.Deriving 'power is non-morally good' from 'agents desire power' commits the naturalistic fallacy, which G.E. Moore showed undermines any such reductive identification.
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    • 3.Even granting the descriptive doctrine, agents demonstrably desire states—love, understanding, aesthetic experience—that are not straightforwardly reducible to power-acquisition.
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    • 1.Aristotle's eudaimonia framework demonstrates that flourishing requires virtuous activity, friendship, and contemplation irreducible to power-seeking.
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    • 2.If non-moral value admits of plural irreducible goods, no single currency like power can serve as the sole measure of what is good for an agent.
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    Notice, now, that the same type of argument seems to capture what the N-Realist construal of Nietzsche has in mind. That is, to get the N-Realist Nietzschean conclusion that what is valuable is power, take (P) and plug in a strong form of Nietzsche’s descriptive doctrine of the will to power — the doctrine, roughly, that all persons intrinsically ‘desire’ only power. If (P) is valid, Value Nihilism false, and the descriptive doctrine of the will to power is true, then the normative conclusion ab
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