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    It is not the case that One cannot genuinely justify an action without reference 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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    • 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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