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    It is not the case that The rules of morality are not conclusions of reason

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    Reasons Against

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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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