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    It is not the case that If morals are based on reason, morals would be incapable of directly influencing our actions

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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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    Reasons Against

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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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    Reason against 2 of 2
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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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