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    It is not the case that Power is what is non-morally valuable or good for an agent

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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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    • 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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