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    It is not the case that A rational will must act 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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    • 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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