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    It is not the case that Self-government requires the capacity for self-alienation — the ability to distance oneself from one's own motives

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    • 1.Harry Frankfurt's hierarchical model shows self-governance consists in identification with one's desires, not alienation from them.
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    • 2.Wholeheartedness — caring without ambivalence — constitutes the highest form of autonomous agency for Frankfurt, not reflective distance.
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    • 3.Therefore, self-government is achieved through integration with one's motives, making self-alienation a symptom of failure, not a requirement.
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    • 1.Aristotelian practical wisdom (phronesis) requires that virtuous agents act from fully internalized character, not detached self-scrutiny.
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    • 2.A governing 'distance' from one's motives presupposes a homuncular self standing apart from character, which Aristotle's unified agent rejects.
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    • 3.If the self just is its stable dispositions and commitments, no coherent 'distancing' self remains to do the governing.
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    • 1.Self-government requires two points of view: that of the governing authority and that of the governed
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    • 2.If rational agents could not distance themselves from their own motives, they would be incapable of governing themselves
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