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    Moral considerations must somehow produce sensations of p... — Carmelics
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    Moral considerations must somehow produce sensations of pleasure or pain in human beings

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    • 1.Moral considerations must be motivating in beings like us
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    • 2.For moral considerations to be motivating, they must produce some felt sensation
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    • 1.Aristotle's virtuous agent acts from stable rational dispositions (hexeis) that motivate without requiring occurrent felt pleasure as the proximate cause.
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    • 2.The pleasure a virtuous person takes in right action is a byproduct of virtuous activity, not the motivational mechanism that produces it.
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    • 3.Therefore, motivation and felt pleasure can come apart, undermining the claim that moral considerations must produce sensations to motivate.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that pure practical reason can motivate action through rational recognition of duty alone, without any sensory feeling.
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    • 2.If rational recognition of the moral law suffices for motivation, moral considerations need not produce pleasure or pain to be action-guiding.
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    Even though we cannot know (or “make intelligible a priori”) how a thought or judgment about the morality of an action “can itself produce a sensation of pleasure or pain”, Kant thinks that this somehow does happen; it must, if moral considerations are to be motivating in beings like us. The phenomenology of respect is unusual, as it involves both pain and pleasure (or something like it). There is the humiliation an agent feels when the moral law strikes down her self-conceit; but respect also f
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