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    Supports→Moral considerations are one set of considerations among others that a rational agent must take into account.

    Rational agents must take account of all relevant kinds of considerations, including moral ones.

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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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