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    Free moral choice must be conceived as taking place in a ... — Carmelics
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    Free moral choice must be conceived as taking place in a supersensible or noumenal realm, not in the phenomenal realm governed by deterministic causality.

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    • 1.Every event in the phenomenal realm is fully determined by chains of causality extending far back beyond any particular choice of any particular individual.
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    • 2.A choice that is fully determined by prior causes cannot be genuinely free.
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    • 3.Moral choice, to be free, must therefore occur outside the deterministic phenomenal order.
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    • 1.Compatibilist accounts (Hume, Frankfurt) show that freedom requires only acting from one's own desires and reasons, not exemption from causality.
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    • 2.A choice caused by an agent's own deliberative character is not thereby unfree, since the relevant distinction is between internal rational causation and external compulsion.
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    • 3.Positing a noumenal realm to ground freedom generates an explanatory regress: if noumenal acts are themselves uncaused, they become arbitrary; if caused, they replicate the original problem.
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    • 1.Kant's own critical philosophy bars any positive theoretical knowledge of the noumenal realm, making noumenal freedom a regulative postulate rather than a substantive metaphysical account.
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    • 2.A concept of moral freedom that is in principle empirically inaccessible cannot do the normative work required by practical ethics, as P.F. Strawson's reactive-attitudes framework demonstrates.
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    • 3.Strawson shows that moral responsibility is grounded in interpersonal practices of holding agents accountable within the phenomenal social world, not in postulated supersensible agency.
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    The problem that has apparently not been solved by the earlier two critiques is that of showing that our choice to act in accordance with the moral law, as the fundamental principle of all laws of freedom, a choice that can be free only if it is conceived of as taking place in a “supersensible” or noumenal realm that is not governed by the deterministic laws of “sensible” or phenomenal nature, where every event is fully determined by chains of causality extending far back beyond any particular c
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