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    Humans ought to employ reason in the pursuit of morality — Carmelics
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    • 1.Humans are most adapted to rational moral contemplation
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    • 2.One ought to follow the direction of nature where it points out the way
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    • 3.Nature points humans toward rational moral inquiry
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    • 1.Hume demonstrates that reason alone is inert and cannot motivate action without prior sentiment or passion.
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    • 2.Moral motivation requires affective states like sympathy or benevolence that operate independently of rational deliberation.
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    • 3.Therefore, grounding morality in reason misidentifies the actual causal mechanism of moral conduct.
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    • 1.Aristotle's phronesis tradition holds that moral wisdom is acquired through habituation and embodied practice, not rational inference.
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    • 2.Locke's rationalist model presupposes a detached deliberative agent that abstracts away the situated character formation virtue ethics requires.
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    • 3.A morality derived from reason without cultivated disposition produces rule-following without genuine virtue.
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    Locke, in fact, adds something of a meta-moral dimension to this epistemological point by suggesting that as rational beings it is our “proper Imployment” to contemplate morality. In Book IV of the Essay, where Locke concludes that morality is, like mathematics, a human science (and, properly-speaking, knowledge), Locke draws a teleological lesson—since we are clearly fitted with the capacity for discerning our moral duty, then that is what we ought to do: “I think I may conclude, that Morality
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