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    It is not the case that There is no fixed human nature that grounds ethical egoism

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    • 1.Human motivations are highly malleable
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    • 2.Human motivations are almost exclusively products of environmental influences
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    • 1.Mencius demonstrates that humans possess innate moral sprouts (四端, sìduān) including compassion, shame, and benevolence that resist purely egoistic reduction.
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    • 2.The universality of the moral sprouts across cultures undermines the claim that self-interest is the singular fixed motivational bedrock of human nature.
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    • 3.Aristotle's account of humans as political animals whose flourishing requires other-regarding virtues further falsifies a fixed egoistic human nature.
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    • 1.If human motivations were fixed toward egoism, cross-cultural practices of self-sacrifice and altruism would require systematic explanation ethical egoism cannot provide.
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    • 2.Hume's observation that sympathy is a natural and immediate human response to others' suffering establishes other-regard as constitutively human, not derived from self-interest.
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