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    It is not the case that Moral judgment must fundamentally consist of sentiments

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    • 1.Hume's own is-ought gap implies sentiments are contingent psychological states that cannot ground normative authority.
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    • 2.A moral judgment carries genuine prescriptive force only if grounded in something more than variable affective responses.
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    • 3.If sentiments merely describe what agents feel rather than what they ought to do, sentiment-based accounts conflate moral psychology with moral epistemology.
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    • 1.Kant demonstrated that pure practical reason generates the categorical imperative independently of inclination or sentiment.
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    • 2.If reason alone can bind the will through recognition of universal law, sentiment is not necessary for moral motivation.
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    • 1.Moral judgment of its very nature motivates action
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    • 2.Reason does not motivate action; only sentiments motivate action
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