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    It is not the case that Stirner's rejection of morality does not entail a rejection of all values or normative judgement

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    • 1.Stirner's own texts treat 'ownness' (Eigenheit) as the singular criterion against which all conduct is evaluated, functioning as a supreme normative standard.
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    • 2.Any framework that employs a supreme evaluative standard from which practical judgements are derived constitutes a normative system, regardless of whether it invokes obligation.
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    • 3.Therefore, the claim that Stirner rejects morality without replacing it with a rival normative structure misreads the logical architecture of Der Einzige.
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    • 1.Nietzsche, who engages directly with Stirner's tradition, argues that the rejection of slave morality does not escape valuation but merely inverts the hierarchy of values.
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    • 2.If the affirmation of non-moral goods like self-interest and power constitutes a positive evaluative stance, then Stirner is not outside normativity but is advancing a competing first-order normative theory.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's premise that Stirner's rejection is 'grounded in affirmation of non-moral goods' inadvertently concedes that Stirner endorses values, undermining the distinctiveness of the original claim.
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    • 1.Stirner rejects morality because morality involves positing obligations to behave in fixed ways, which is incompatible with egoism
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    • 2.Stirner's rejection of morality is grounded in the affirmation of non-moral goods, not in the denial of values as such
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    • 3.Stirner's conception of morality is narrow — limited to obligations to others — and does not encompass all normative or ethical judgement
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