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    Practical reason's unconditional demand for moral obligat... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→We cannot theoretically know that we are free.

    Practical reason's unconditional demand for moral obligation itself constitutes a form of rational self-knowledge that is not theoretical.

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    • 1.Moral obligation's categorical force reveals something about rational agency that cannot be discovered through observation or theoretical analysis alone.
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    • 2.When we recognize an unconditional moral demand, we simultaneously discover our own rational nature as beings capable of self-governance independent of desires.
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    • 3.This self-knowledge is practical because it emerges only through deliberation and commitment, not through detached contemplation of external facts.
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    • 1.The claim conflates phenomenological conviction with genuine knowledge; feeling obligated unconditionally doesn't establish that this reveals rational self-knowledge.
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    • 2.All self-knowledge about rational agency—including moral agency—ultimately depends on theoretical understanding of cognition, motivation, and normativity.
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    • 3.Practical reason's deliverances are motivationally efficacious, but efficacy alone cannot distinguish genuine knowledge from sophisticated rationalization or illusion.
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    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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