RT Article
T1 Practical Reasons and the Redundancy of Motives
JF Ethical theory and moral practice
VO 4
IS 1
SP 3
OP 22
A1 Norman, Richard
LA English
PB Springer Science + Business Media B. V
YR 2001
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1785691961
AB Jonathan Dancy, in his 1994 Aristotelian Society Presidential Address, set out to show 'why there is really no such thing as the theory of motivation'. In this paper I want to agree that there is no such thing, and to offer reasons of a different kind for that conclusion. I shall suggest that the so-called ‘theory of motivation’ misconstrues the question which it purports to answer, and that when we properly analyse the question and distinguish it clearly from other questions with which it should not be confused, we do not need a theory of motivation at all.
K1 Williams
K1 Tanney
K1 Reasons
K1 Parfit
K1 Motives
K1 Moral Realism
K1 McNaughton
K1 Internalism
K1 Garrard
K1 Externalism
K1 Dancy
DO 10.1023/A:1011435024849