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    Our immediate experience of our own bodies reveals that human actions are determined by desire rather than by reason.

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    • 1.We have an immediate, first-person experience of our own bodies as instruments of our wills.
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    • 2.This immediate experience presents actions as determined by desire, not by rational deliberation.
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    • 1.Kant's transcendental analysis shows that practical reason, not desire, is the ground of genuinely autonomous action via the categorical imperative.
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    • 2.First-person phenomenological access to bodily action underdetermines whether desire or rational will is the ultimate cause of that action.
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    • 3.An agent can experience desire as a motivating force while rational deliberation simultaneously shapes, overrides, or endorses which desires are acted upon.
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    • 1.Aristotle distinguishes akrasia—acting against reason due to desire—as a defective case, implying reason normally governs action in virtuous agents.
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    • 2.The existence of akrasia as a recognized philosophical problem presupposes that reason can and often does determine action contrary to immediate desire.
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    What Schopenhauer means is that although we have an experience of our own bodies, as it were from the outside, through the same forms of space, time, and causality through which we experience all other bodies, including other animate bodies, and in this regard we experience all bodies including our own as mere appearance through the forms we impose on experience, we also have another experience, each of us of his or her own body, as it were from the inside, namely we have an experience of willin
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