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    It is not the case that The key difference between Kant and Hume on moral motivation is that Kant believes pure reason can produce a motivationally efficacious feeling (respect), while Hume denies pure reason has any such capacity.

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    • 1.Kant's 'respect' is not a purely rational feeling but arises from reason's check on sensuous inclination, making it hybrid rather than purely rational.
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    • 2.If respect requires the suppression of sensuous impulses as a causal precondition, Hume could grant this mechanism without conceding that pure reason alone is motivationally efficacious.
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    • 3.The distinction Kant draws between reason 'producing' respect and reason 'occasioning' respect is systematically unstable in the Groundwork and second Critique.
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    • 1.Hume's own account in the Treatise allows reason to direct passions by identifying their objects and causal relations, which is a form of motivational efficacy under a different description.
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    • 2.If Humean 'calm passions' can be mistaken for pure rational determinations, as Hume himself acknowledges, the phenomenological and functional difference Kant claims may be less categorical than the claim asserts.
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    • 1.Kant holds that pure reason can generate the feeling of respect, which in turn motivates action.
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    • 2.Hume holds that reason alone cannot produce any motivationally efficacious feeling.
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