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    You must value your humanity (rational nature) in order to see value in having a particular practical identity

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    • 1.To think that having a particular practical identity matters, you must think it matters that your life have the rational structure such identities provide
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    • 2.To see a rationally structured life as mattering, you must see value in leading a rationally structured life
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    • 3.To see value in leading a rationally structured life, you must see your rational nature as valuable
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    • 1.Practical identities can be grounded in constitutive attachments (Bernard Williams) that derive their normative force from emotional depth, not rational endorsement.
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    • 2.A person may see their role as parent or artist as unconditionally binding precisely because it resists rational re-evaluation, not because rational nature is valued.
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    • 3.Therefore, valuing a practical identity requires valuing the particular attachment itself, not the generic rational capacity that could in principle endorse any identity.
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    • 1.Aristotelian virtue ethics grounds practical identity in the telos of specific social roles and communities, not in a prior valuation of abstract rational nature.
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    • 2.MacIntyre argues in 'After Virtue' that the self is constituted by narrative traditions that precede and condition any exercise of rational reflection.
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    • 3.Therefore, the normative force of practical identity is derived from historically embedded practices, making valuation of rational nature explanatorily derivative, not foundational.
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    But then (step (5)), to think that this makes having some sort of particular practical identity important, you must think that it matters that your life have the sort of rational structure that having such identities provides; but (step (6)), to see that as mattering, you must see value in your leading a rationally structured life. And then, finally, to see value in your leading such a life, you must see your rational nature as valuable, which is to value your humanity.
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