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    Challenges→The Moral Judgment Internalism thesis (MJI) leads to non-cognitive expressivism.

    Kant's moral rationalism holds that pure practical reason generates both moral judgment and motivation through the categorical imperative, with no irreducibly conative state required.

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    • 1.Reason alone can determine action without desire: rational consistency requirements bind all rational agents categorically.
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    • 2.Pure practical reason explains moral motivation better than desires: it applies universally and survives rational scrutiny unlike preferences.
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    • 3.The CI generates both judgment and motivation: recognizing an action as duty-required just is experiencing rational necessity to act.
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    • 1.Recognizing rational inconsistency doesn't guarantee motivation: one can coherently see duty yet remain unmoved without additional desires.
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    • 2.Empirically, people require conative states to act: amoralists and akratics show reason alone insufficient, even when rationally consistent.
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    • 3.Respecting rational principles requires prior commitment: Kant must smuggle in an implicit desire to be rational agents to get off the ground.
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    Key Terms

    Irreducibly(describing how 'mass' appears in Newton's second law)
    In a way that cannot be broken down into simpler parts; something that has to remain as is.
    Kant(as used in epistemology and metaphysics)
    Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) was an influential German philosopher who argued that our minds shape how we experience reality, and that we can only truly know things as they appear to us, not as they are in themselves.
    Moral Rationalism(Defended via the connection between blame and reasons)
    The view that moral obligations entail reasons for action
    categorical imperative(Groundwork, 4.421, 429)
    The moral law requiring that one will the maxim of an action as a universal law (removing any self-preference) and treat humanity in any person always as an end and never merely as a means
    conative state(moral psychology)
    A desire or intrinsically motivating state, contrasted with belief, that the Humean view holds is necessary for motivation
    pure practical reason(Kantian epistemology and ethics)
    Reason as applied to action independently of empirical considerations, which on Kant's view directly delivers the ends of morality a priori.

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