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    Reason cannot be the motive to moral action — Carmelics
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    Reason cannot be the motive to moral action

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    • Reason cannot motivate any action whatsoever
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    • 1.Hume's argument conflates reason's inability to produce bare conation with its inability to motivate when conjoined with moral judgment.
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    • 2.Contemporary constructivists like Korsgaard argue that practical reason constitutes rather than merely tracks normative authority, giving it genuine motivational force.
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    • 3.An agent who reflectively endorses an action through rational deliberation and acts on that endorsement demonstrates reason functioning as the proximate motivational source.
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    • 1.Kant's categorical imperative shows that rational beings can be moved to act solely by recognition of universal law, independent of desire.
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    • 2.If the mere conception of duty as rationally derived can produce respect (Achtung) as a motivating feeling, reason initiates the causal chain of action.
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    Hume draws important anti-rationalist moral conclusions from this line of thought. One obvious implication is that reason cannot be the motive to moral action; if reason cannot motivate any action, it cannot motivate moral action. A second further conclusion is that morality and its basic principles cannot be grounded in reason. This one follows both from his views about the “inertness” of reason generally, and from his assumption that morality has real motivational power: “Morals excite passion
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