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    To wholeheartedly endorse the long-term shape of one's li... — Carmelics
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    To wholeheartedly endorse the long-term shape of one's life, one must see that shape as consistent with one's happiness.

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    • 1.Wholehearted endorsement of one's life requires affirming its overall trajectory.
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    • 2.A life structured around sacrificing happiness cannot be wholeheartedly affirmed.
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    • 1.Aristotle's own account allows that the magnanimous person may sacrifice happiness for noble ends, affirming this as the highest expression of virtue.
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    • 2.Wholehearted endorsement tracks rational coherence with one's deepest commitments, not consistency with one's happiness.
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    • 1.Bernard Williams argues that ground projects can constitute personal identity even when they systematically undermine the agent's subjective well-being.
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    • 2.If endorsement of one's life is grounded in integrity to ground projects, happiness becomes a contingent rather than necessary condition of affirmation.
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    The critic of this form of the Kantian argument may reply that Kantian morality sees duty as something that must be done regardless of the consequences, and thus a truly moral person cannot make his or her commitment to morality contingent on the achievement of happiness. From a Kantian point of view, this reply seems right; Kant unequivocally affirms that moral actions must be done for the sake of duty and not from any desire for personal reward. Nevertheless, especially for any philosopher wil
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