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    To rationally choose any action, an agent must regard themselves as valuable.

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    • 1.To rationally choose an action, the agent must regard that action as good in some way.
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    • 2.An action can be regarded as good because it benefits the agent or satisfies a genuine need or desire of the agent.
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    • 3.Regarding something as good because it benefits the agent presupposes that the agent values themselves.
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    • 1.Kant's moral agent acts from duty to the categorical imperative, not from any valuation of personal benefit or self-regard.
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    • 2.An agent who acts solely because the maxim of their action is universalizable need not presuppose their own value—only the law's validity.
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    • 3.Therefore, rational action grounded in pure practical reason requires no self-valuation, only respect for the moral law itself.
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    • 1.Buddhist ethics, as articulated by Śāntideva in the Bodhicaryāvatāra, holds that the self is a conceptual fiction without intrinsic value.
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    • 2.An agent who has correctly recognized the emptiness of selfhood can still rationally choose compassionate actions directed entirely at the welfare of others.
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    • 3.If rational choice is possible precisely through the dissolution of self-regard rather than its affirmation, self-valuation is not a necessary condition for rational agency.
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    Consider this example. To rationally choose to eat this piece of chocolate cake, I must think that eating the cake is good in some way. How can I regard it as good? It seems implausible to say that eating the cake is good in itself, of intrinsic value. It also seems implausible to say that it is good just because it satisfies a desire as such: for even if I was bulimic it might do that, but still not be regarded as good. A third suggestion, then, is that it can be seen as good because it is good
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