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    Reason can never oppose passion in the direction of the will — Carmelics
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    Reason can never oppose passion in the direction of the will

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    • 1.The only thing that can oppose an impulse to action generated by a passion is a contrary impulse
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    • 2.Reason could counteract a passion-generated impulse only if reason could itself generate a contrary impulse
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    • 3.Reason cannot generate an impulse to action
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    • 1.Reason can identify that a passion is founded on a false belief, such as mistakenly thinking an object will produce pleasure.
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    • 2.When reason corrects the false belief, the passion founded on it ceases or diminishes, meaning reason indirectly governed the will's direction.
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    • 3.This indirect governance constitutes reason opposing passion in the direction of the will, even if mediated through belief revision.
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    • 1.Kant's moral philosophy demonstrates that pure practical reason generates the categorical imperative independently of any antecedent desire or passion.
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    • 2.The categorical imperative produces genuine motivational force sufficient to override inclination, as evidenced by agents acting from duty against self-interest.
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    • 3.If reason can generate obligation that overrides passion, then P3 of the supporting argument—that reason cannot generate an impulse to action—is empirically and philosophically false.
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    A second argument, which builds on the first, aims to show that reason “can never oppose passion in the direction of the will” (T 2.3.3.1). The only thing that can oppose an impulse to action generated by one passion is a contrary impulse. Reason, then, could counteract an impulse to action generated by a passion if and only if reason could itself generate a contrary impulse. But from the first argument, we know that that reason cannot generate such an impulse. “Thus it appears, that the princip
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