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    Supports→Pleasure is not the true or ultimate measure of choice-worthiness

    Therefore, choice-worthiness tracks objective features of actions and character—such as virtue, integrity, and genuine relationship—that pleasure merely accompanies but does not constitute.

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    Key Terms

    Constitute(metaphysics)
    To be the parts or components that make up something—like how ingredients constitute a cake.
    Genuine relationship(as used in ethics)
    A real, authentic connection between people based on honesty and care, rather than something fake or self-serving.
    Integrity(Presented as a necessary condition for being an agent at all)
    The coherent unity of agency achieved through commitment to morality and universal principles of self-government.
    choice-worthiness(Shaftesbury's anti-hedonist normative framework)
    The property of being genuinely worth choosing, determined by the objective goodness of the thing rather than by whether it produces pleasure
    objective features(The debate is whether confused thoughts still accurately represent these real features)

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    Real characteristics or properties of things that exist independently—not just in someone's imagination or feelings about them.
    pleasure(Leibniz's metaphysical account of pleasure as perception of harmonic order)
    A confused or distinct apprehension of harmony
    virtue(Valla's voluntarist account of virtue)
    A quality that resides in the will, governing actions to which moral qualifications are assigned.

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