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    Moral obligations entail reasons for action — Carmelics
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    Moral obligations entail reasons for action

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    • 1.When an agent does something morally wrong, blame of that agent is warranted
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    • 2.Blame involves the judgment that the agent had reasons not to do what the agent did
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    • 3.Blame is unwarranted when the judgment that the agent had reasons is unwarranted
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    • 1.An agent can be morally blameworthy for an action even if they lacked any motivating reason to act otherwise, as Kant's categorical imperative binds regardless of desire.
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    • 2.Blame tracks moral violations of objective duties, not the presence of subjective reasons internal to the agent's motivational set.
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    • 3.Therefore, the inference from warranted blame to the agent having had reasons conflates the normative force of obligations with the internalist conditions Williams requires for reasons.
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    • 1.Amoralists, as described by Mackie and later Parfit, can coherently understand moral obligations while remaining entirely unmotivated by them.
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    • 2.If amoralists face genuine moral obligations yet lack any corresponding reason grounded in their motivational set, obligations do not entail reasons for all agents.
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    • 3.The supporting argument's premise that blame requires the judgment that the agent had reasons smuggles in a contested internalist assumption about reasons that the amoralist case directly refutes.
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    An important part of the debate about internal and external reasons has centered on ‘reactive attitudes’, or attitudes that we have towards agents in response to their behavior, of which blame is the paradigm. Some have observed in defense of Moral Rationalism, for example, that if an agent does something we consider morally wrong, then we blame (or resent) her. But blame, these philosophers claim, involves the judgment that the agent had reasons not to do what he did. Consequently blame is unwa
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