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    A rational will must act under the Idea of its own freedom — Carmelics
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    • Kant claims in the Groundwork (G 4:448) that a rational will cannot act except under the Idea of its own freedom
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    • 1.Hume argues in the Treatise (2.3.3) that reason is the slave of the passions and motivates no action independently.
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    • 2.If reason alone cannot motivate action, a purely rational will cannot be the source of the freedom Kant attributes to it.
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    • 3.Kant's 'Idea of freedom' is thus a regulative fiction projected onto desire-driven agency, not a constitutive feature of rational willing.
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    • 1.Hard determinists like d'Holbach argue that all mental states, including deliberation, are causally necessitated by prior physical states.
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    • 2.If deliberation is itself causally determined, the phenomenological sense of acting 'under the Idea of freedom' is epistemically unreliable evidence for actual freedom.
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    • 3.Kant's transcendental idealism, which grounds this freedom, is unavailable to empirical agents reasoning about their own causal situation.
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    A crucial move in Kant’s argument is his claim that a rational will cannot act except “under the Idea” of its own freedom (G 4:448). The expression “acting under the Idea of freedom” is easy to misunderstand. It does not mean that a rational will must believe it is free, since determinists are as free as libertarians in Kant’s view. Indeed, Kant goes out of his way in his most famous work, the Critique of Pure Reason, to argue that we have no rational basis for believing our wills to be free. Th
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