Practical Reasons and the Redundancy of Motives

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 t...

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主要作者: Norman, Richard (Author)
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語言:English
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出版: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2001
In: Ethical theory and moral practice
Year: 2001, 卷: 4, 發布: 1, Pages: 3-22
Further subjects:B Tanney
B Motives
B Moral Realism
B Williams
B Internalism
B Garrard
B Externalism
B Reasons
B Dancy
B Parfit
B McNaughton
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總結: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.
ISSN:1572-8447
Contains:Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1011435024849