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    If morals are based on reason, morals would be incapable ... — Carmelics
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    If morals are based on reason, morals would be incapable of directly influencing our actions

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    • 1.Reason alone produces only beliefs and judgments, but action requires a motivating desire or passion, as Hume argues in the Treatise.
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    • 2.No purely cognitive state—however rationally compelling—can generate motivational force without a conative partner such as desire or sentiment.
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    • 3.Moral judgments grounded solely in reason therefore lack the internal motivational structure necessary to directly move an agent to act.
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    • 1.Internalism about moral motivation holds that genuine moral judgments must be intrinsically motivating, yet reason-based beliefs are motivationally inert without affect.
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    • 2.If moral beliefs derived from reason were sufficient for motivation, agents who accept a moral conclusion but feel no pull toward action would be conceptually impossible—yet such agents (amoralists) are coherent.
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    • 1.If morals are based on reason, morals consist in true or false ideas
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    • 2.True or false ideas are in themselves incapable of having direct influence on our actions
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    An argument of David Hume provides a more direct threat to the possibility of moral knowledge based on the fact that morals excite our passions and motivate us to act. If morals are based on reason so that they consist in true or false ideas, they would have to be in themselves incapable of having this direct influence on our actions (Hume, Treatise, Book III, Part I, Section I, Paragraph 6.) As he famously said, it is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the sc
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