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    It is not the case that Moral considerations must somehow produce sensations of pleasure or pain in human beings

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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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    • 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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