Will, Freedom, Consequentialism

According to Atomistic Empiricism, to which Mill subscribes, 'B is the consequence of A' is an example of Efficient Causality. Thus, Mill's teleological formulation 'The value of A is determined by B' presupposes Consequentialism, but supervenes on it. So, one difficulty for a Utilitarian interpretation of interpersonal interaction is when 'A' is an exhortation to someone to act freely, and B is free action', because a reduction of the sequence to Efficient Causality requires a question-begging abstraction from its entailed 'freedom'. Thus, insofar as Kant's Rational Principle is such an exhortation to act freely, his doctrine, minus its teleological elements--that a rational being is an 'end-in-itself' whose Happiness is a 'good'--eludes reduction to Utilitarianism. However, it remains susceptible to the latter insofar as it continues to classify its exhortation as either Efficient or Teleological Causality. Now, an alternative has been proposed here--Material Causality, i. e. the process of Becoming-Diverse, the instance in personal experience of which is Will, the process of self-activation. Thus, the promotion of the Freedom of another can be Causal without being reducible to Utilitarianism.