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    The capacity to impose the moral law upon oneself is the ultimate source of all moral value.

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    • 1.To value anything, whether instrumentally or intrinsically, implies the ability to make value judgments generally.
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    • 2.The most fundamental value judgment is the determination of what is morally valuable.
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    • 3.The capacity to impose the moral law upon oneself is what enables such value judgments.
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    • 1.Moral value is grounded in the objective good of sentient beings, not in the act of self-legislation, as Aristotle and Philippa Foot argue.
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    • 2.A being incapable of imposing law upon itself—an infant, a cognitively impaired person—can still be a locus of genuine moral value.
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    • 3.If moral value derived solely from self-legislation, beings lacking that capacity would have no intrinsic worth, a conclusion virtually all moral traditions reject.
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    • 1.Hume argues that reason alone is inert and cannot generate motivating value; only sentiment provides the original source of moral worth.
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    • 2.The capacity to impose a rational law upon oneself presupposes prior affective states—care, sympathy, aversion to suffering—that do the real normative work.
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    • 3.Therefore, self-legislation is at most a formal procedure for organizing moral value whose ultimate source lies in pre-rational sentiments, not in autonomy itself.
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    The story continues, however: for the claim is that this capacity (to impose upon ourselves the moral law) is the ultimate source of all moral value — for to value anything (instrumentally or intrinsically) implies the ability to make value judgments generally, the most fundamental of which is the determination of what is morally valuable. Some theorists who are not (self-described) Kantians have made this inference central to their views of autonomy. Paul Benson, for example, has argued that be
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