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    It is not the case that Kantian accounts of moral agency locate responsibility-taking in rational acknowledgment of the moral law, not in affective states, which are heteronomous and vary with temperament and circumstance.

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    • 1.Rational acknowledgment of moral law without emotional commitment often produces hollow compliance; genuine responsibility requires caring about outcomes.
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    • 2.Emotions like empathy and guilt are constitutive of moral understanding, not obstacles to it; they embody irreducible dimensions of moral knowledge.
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    • 3.Kantian theory cannot adequately explain why agents sometimes rationally acknowledge duties yet fail to act; motivation requires affective engagement.
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    • 1.Moral responsibility requires stable principles transcending individual variation; only rational acknowledgment provides universalizable grounds for accountability.
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    • 2.Emotions are causally dependent on external factors beyond our control; basing responsibility on them undermines the autonomy required for genuine moral agency.
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    • 3.The capacity to recognize and act on moral law through reason is what distinguishes moral agents from non-agents across cultures and psychological types.
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