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    Morality and its basic principles cannot be grounded in r... — Carmelics
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    Morality and its basic principles cannot be grounded in reason

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    • 1.Reason is inert — it cannot on its own motivate any action
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    • 2.Morality has genuine motivational power over human conduct
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    • 1.Kant demonstrates that the categorical imperative — derived through pure practical reason alone — generates binding moral obligations universally.
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    • 2.If reason can identify principles that apply necessarily and universally to all rational beings, then reason is itself a sufficient ground for morality.
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    • 3.Hume's 'is-ought' gap, which motivates the claim, presupposes a sharp fact-value distinction that rationalists like Korsgaard argue is itself normatively question-begging.
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    • 1.Hume's argument that reason is 'inert' conflates theoretical reason with practical reason, which Kant treats as a distinct, action-orienting faculty.
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    • 2.If practical reason constitutively involves the capacity to act on principles one endorses as rational, then motivation and reason are not cleanly separable as Hume assumes.
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    Hume draws important anti-rationalist moral conclusions from this line of thought. One obvious implication is that reason cannot be the motive to moral action; if reason cannot motivate any action, it cannot motivate moral action. A second further conclusion is that morality and its basic principles cannot be grounded in reason. This one follows both from his views about the “inertness” of reason generally, and from his assumption that morality has real motivational power: “Morals excite passion
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