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    The concept of an 'unconditioned' choice is incoherent, s... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→The transition from the aesthetic life to the ethical life requires a radical, unconditioned choice

    The concept of an 'unconditioned' choice is incoherent, since any act of choosing presupposes prior evaluative commitments that make some options intelligible as choices.

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    • 1.All choices involve deliberation, which requires comparing options against evaluative criteria already in place before choosing.
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    • 2.Random selection without prior values (e.g., coin flip) is not meaningfully a 'choice' in any normative sense.
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    • 3.Introspection reveals that every decision I make is intelligible only through my antecedent commitments, desires, and principles.
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    • 1.A choice can be intelligible without being *fully* determined by prior commitments; some freedom requires partial independence.
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    • 2.Calling prior evaluations 'conditioning' equivocates between causal influence and logical necessity—the latter doesn't follow from the former.
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    • 3.If all choices are conditioned by prior commitments, those commitments were themselves conditioned, leading to infinite regress unless some choices are unconditioned.
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