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    Challenges→Morality and its basic principles cannot be grounded in reason

    If reason can identify principles that apply necessarily and universally to all rational beings, then reason is itself a sufficient ground for morality.

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    • 1.Moral principles that bind all rational beings must derive from what all rational beings share: the structure of reason itself.
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    • 2.If morality requires a non-arbitrary foundation, it cannot depend on contingent desires, emotions, or cultural variation among agents.
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    • 3.Reason can identify logical contradictions in willing maxims universally, establishing necessity without external authority.
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    • 1.Identifying universal rational principles describes how rational beings think, not what makes actions morally right or wrong.
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    • 2.Two rational beings can universalize contradictory maxims and find both logically consistent with reason alone.
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    • 3.Morality requires motivational force; reason alone tells us what follows, not why we should care about following it.
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