Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Michael Burke, Frances A. Yates and Rowland Stout
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 1. Acting on Desires
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For an ascetic a powerful desire for something is a reason not to implement it [Stout,R]
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20049
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Maybe your emotions arise from you motivations, rather than being their cause [Stout,R]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes
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20060
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Beliefs, desires and intentions are not events, so can't figure in causal relations [Stout,R]
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20055
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A standard view says that the explanation of an action is showing its rational justification [Stout,R]
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In order to be causal, an agent's reasons must be internalised as psychological states [Stout,R]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 4. Responsibility for Actions
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20053
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An action is only yours if you produce it, rather than some state or event within you [Stout,R]
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20048
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There may be a justification relative to a person's view, and yet no absolute justification [Stout,R]
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20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 5. Action Dilemmas / b. Double Effect
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Describing a death as a side-effect rather than a goal may just be good public relations [Stout,R]
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