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    It is not the case that You must value your humanity (rational nature) in order to see value in having a particular practical identity

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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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    • 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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