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    It is not the case that We are forbidden from adopting the maxim of refusing to develop any of our own natural talents.

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    • 1.The Formula of Universal Law generates duties only when a maxim's universalization produces a logical contradiction, not merely a prudential one.
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    • 2.The universalization of 'develop no talents' produces no logical contradiction—a world of idle rational beings is coherently conceivable.
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    • 3.Therefore, the duty to develop talents cannot be derived from the categorical imperative and at most reflects a contingent prudential counsel.
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    • 1.Bernard Williams argues that a life structured around impartial rational demands systematically alienates agents from their ground projects and personal commitments.
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    • 2.Refusing to develop certain talents may constitute a constitutive feature of an agent's integrity and authentic self-conception, not a moral failure.
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    • 3.Kant's subsumption of talent-development under universal rational willing illicitly imposes an external normative standard on what is properly a first-personal question of how to live.
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    • 1.Rationality requires conformity to hypothetical imperatives, so rational agents will the necessary and available means to any ends they will.
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    • 2.We must will our own happiness as an end.
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    • 3.Developed talents are necessary means to achieving happiness.
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