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    Recognizing autonomy as a precondition for pursuing any g... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Millian liberalism does not require state neutrality about the good

    Recognizing autonomy as a precondition for pursuing any good is distinct from endorsing autonomy as itself a substantive good within a particular conception of flourishing.

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    • 1.Instrumental prerequisites (like autonomy) function differently than intrinsic goods; one enables pursuit, the other constitutes flourishing.
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    • 2.A Kantian can require autonomous agency for moral worth without claiming autonomy itself makes life go well for the person living it.
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    • 3.Someone might need autonomy to pursue religious devotion while viewing self-surrender, not autonomy, as their true good.
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    • 1.Any condition necessary for pursuing goods is thereby constitutive of human flourishing; if autonomy is necessary, it is substantive.
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    • 2.The distinction collapses under scrutiny—endorsing something as a precondition for all goods implicitly endorses it as fundamentally valuable.
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