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    One cannot genuinely justify an action without reference to a moral sense.

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    • 1.Justifying an action solely by noting that it conforms to a true proposition would justify every possible action, since every action can be described by some true proposition.
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    • 2.Justifying an action by truths about its fitness to attain an end still requires reference to the moral quality of that end.
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    • 3.Determining the moral quality of an end requires adverting to a moral sense.
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    • 1.Rational agents can justify actions by appeal to universalizable maxims derived from the form of practical reason alone, without any sensory faculty.
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    • 2.Kant's categorical imperative generates genuine moral justifications grounded in rational consistency, not affective response.
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    • 3.If a non-sentimentalist procedure yields coherent, action-guiding justifications, the moral sense cannot be a necessary condition for justification.
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    • 1.Contractualist justification grounds moral legitimacy in principles that no reasonable person could reject, a standard derived from reciprocal rationality rather than sentiment.
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    • 2.Scanlon's contractualism produces action-justifications that are intersubjectively valid precisely because they bypass individual affective states like moral sense.
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    When it comes to justifying reasons, Hutcheson believes that one cannot genuinely justify an action without reference to a moral sense. As Hutcheson notes, one cannot justify an action simply by noting that it conforms to a true proposition, as this would justify every possible action (Essay, 144). Furthermore, even if we focus on particular truths that may be said about particular actions (such as, e.g., “a Truth shewing an Action to be fit to attain an End”), these truths do not genuinely just
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