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    Challenges→Humans ought to employ reason in the pursuit of morality

    Hume demonstrates that reason alone is inert and cannot motivate action without prior sentiment or passion.

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    • 1.Pure logical reasoning about abstract facts (e.g., mathematical truths) produces no desire to act without emotional investment in outcomes.
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    • 2.We can rationally understand moral duties yet remain unmoved to act; only sentiment like sympathy actually compels moral behavior.
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    • 3.Reason merely identifies means to ends; it cannot establish why we should desire any end without prior passion determining value.
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    • 1.Rational agents act on beliefs about their own well-being without requiring independent sentiment; reason itself can identify and motivate self-interest.
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    • 2.Hume conflates motivation with phenomenological feeling; rational conviction that X is necessary can move us to act without conscious passion.
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    • 3.Intellectual commitments and value judgments constitute their own form of rational motivation distinct from Humean 'passion' or sentiment.
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