“If you had no normative conception of your identity, you could have no reasons for action, and because your consciousness is reflective, you could then not act at all. Since you cannot act without reasons and your humanity is the source of your reasons, you must value your own humanity if you are to act at all. It follows from this argument that human beings are valuable. Enlightenment morality is true.”
– Christine M. Korsgaard, The Sources of Normativity
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