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    It is not the case that We can confidently infer the reality of our noumenal freedom to choose to do whatever morality requires

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    • 1.The phenomenology of moral obligation is compatible with being a deterministic system that feels compelled rather than free.
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    • 2.Hume demonstrated that the felt sense of 'ought' arises from sentiment and social conditioning, not evidence of a noumenal self.
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    • 3.Therefore, the immediate awareness of obligation cannot serve as evidence for a metaphysically distinct freedom beyond the causal order.
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    Reason for 2 of 2
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    • 1.'Ought implies can' establishes only that practical deliberation presupposes ability, not that a noumenal self actually possesses libertarian freedom.
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    • 2.Kant's inference from the practical postulate of freedom to its metaphysical reality commits a transcendental illusion he elsewhere explicitly warns against.
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    Reasons Against

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    • 1.We have an immediate awareness of our obligation under the moral law
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    • 2.If we ought to do something, then we must be able to do it (ought implies can)
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