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    It is not the case that Humans ought to employ reason in the pursuit of morality

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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