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    It is not the case that Our immediate experience of our own bodies reveals that human actions are determined by desire rather than by reason.

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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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    • 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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