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    Volitions and actions also cannot be contrary to truth and reason.

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    • 1.Passions cannot be contrary to truth and reason because they are original existences, not copies of objects.
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    • 2.Volitions and actions, like passions, are not ideas or mental copies of objects.
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    • 3.Contradiction to truth and reason applies only to ideas considered as copies of objects.
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    • 1.Practical reason can generate categorical imperatives that actions either conform to or violate, making actions rationally assessable as such.
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    • 2.Kant's Formula of Universal Law shows that maxims underlying actions can be self-contradictory, meaning the will itself can contradict reason.
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    • 3.If a volition rests on a maxim that cannot be universalized without logical contradiction, that volition is contrary to reason in a non-trivial sense.
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    • 1.Hume's own account allows that passions can be 'unreasonable' when founded on false beliefs about means-end relations or the existence of objects.
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    • 2.If volitions systematically depend on such false beliefs about the world, they inherit the irrationality of those beliefs rather than being fully insulated from it.
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    • 3.This internal concession in Hume undermines the clean separation between passion-like states and rational assessment that the original argument requires.
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    The third argument claims that a passion is an “original existence”, not an idea, or a mental copy of another object. Contradiction to truth and reason “consists in the disagreement of ideas, consider’d as copies, with those objects, which they represent” (T 2.3.3.5). Therefore, a passion cannot be contrary to truth and reason. Passions cannot, strictly speaking, be evaluated as reasonable or unreasonable, despite our practice of calling passions unreasonable or irrational when they depend in so
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    Practical reason can generate categorical imperatives that actions either confor...
    This internal concession in Hume undermines the clean separation between passion...
    Volitions and actions, like passions, are not ideas or mental copies of objects.
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