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Ideas for Alcmaeon, Boethius and Michael Smith
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 1. Acting on Desires
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A pure desire could be criticised if it were based on a false belief [Smith,M]
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In the Humean account, desires are not true/false, or subject to any rational criticism [Smith,M]
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Subjects may be fallible about the desires which explain their actions [Smith,M]
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23736
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A person can have a desire without feeling it [Smith,M]
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23739
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Goals need desires, and so only desires can motivate us [Smith,M]
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Humeans (unlike their opponents) say that desires and judgements can separate [Smith,M]
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23742
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If first- and second-order desires conflict, harmony does not require the second-order to win [Smith,M]
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23746
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Objective reasons to act might be the systematic desires of a fully rational person [Smith,M]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / a. Practical reason
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23733
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Motivating reasons are psychological, while normative reasons are external [Smith,M]
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Humeans take maximising desire satisfaction as the normative reasons for actions [Smith,M]
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We cannot expect even fully rational people to converge on having the same desires for action [Smith,M]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / b. Intellectualism
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The wicked want goodness, so they would not be wicked if they obtained it [Boethius]
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