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    It is not the case that What we mistake for reason opposing a passion-driven impulse is actually a calm passion, not reason itself

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    • 1.Kant's transcendental psychology demonstrates that pure practical reason generates the categorical imperative independently of any affective state or desire.
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    • 2.If the opposing force were merely a calm passion, it would be contingent on temperament and could not ground universally binding moral obligations.
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    • 3.The unconditional 'ought' of moral duty cannot be derived from any passion, however calm, because passions are empirically conditioned and admit of degrees.
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    • 1.Hume's own taxonomy conflates the phenomenological mildness of calm passions with their functional role, but mildness of felt intensity does not determine whether a state is cognitive or conative.
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    • 2.Rational deliberation demonstrably corrects passion-based errors through syllogistic inference about means-end relations, a capacity no passion possesses by Hume's own account of passional cognition.
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    • 1.Reason cannot oppose passion-generated impulses to action
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    • 2.Something in us is sometimes felt to run contrary to impulses to act
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    • 3.That contrary force must be something other than reason, such as a calm passion like a general appetite for the good, benevolence, or aversion to evil
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