If moral agency can be preserved through the compatibilist framework of holding attitudes within a deterministic world, the phenomenal/noumenal distinction is not necessary but merely one optional solution.

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Deterministic world(as used in metaphysics): A universe where every event is caused by previous events in an unbroken chain, leaving no room for randomness or uncaused choices.
Immanuel Kant(as the originator of this concept): An 18th-century German philosopher who developed major ideas about ethics, reasoning, and how we understand the world; he's famous for arguing that morality is based on universal rules that apply to everyone equally.
Phenomenal/noumenal distinction(as used in epistemology and metaphysics): Philosopher Immanuel Kant's idea that there's a difference between how things appear to us (phenomena) and how things actually are in themselves (noumena), which we can never fully know.
compatibilism(Offered as a response to the traditional problem of free will): The philosophical position that free will and moral responsibility are compatible with determinism being true

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