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    The rules of morality are not conclusions of reason — Carmelics
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    The rules of morality are not conclusions of reason

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    • 1.Morality has real motivational power — morals excite passions and produce or prevent actions
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    • 2.Reason of itself is utterly impotent to excite passions or produce actions
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    • 1.Reason can identify necessary connections between actions and ends we already have, constituting a form of practical normativity.
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    • 2.Kant's categorical imperative demonstrates that pure practical reason generates unconditional moral obligations without prior emotional states.
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    • 3.If reason can bind rational agents universally regardless of contingent desires, morality's foundations are rational, not merely sentimental.
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    • 1.Hume's argument conflates motivational force with justificatory grounding — a norm can be rationally derived even if passion is required to act on it.
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    • 2.The fact that passions are necessary for motivation does not entail that reason is insufficient to determine the content or validity of moral rules.
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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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