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    It is not the case that The capacity to impose the moral law upon oneself is the ultimate source of all moral value.

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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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    • 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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