Use when someone is trying to fix behavior with willpower or rules while the underlying disposition is unchanged. Use when auditing a habit by asking 'what inner state produces this?' Use when deciding between managing symptoms and changing the source.

It is an anti-performative account of ethics. The maxims are not rules to obey but symptoms to read. This explains why surface compliance never holds and why integrity is self-reinforcing. It hands you a one-line diagnostic: if life looks wrong, examine the inner default before the outer circumstance.