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Single Idea 20202
[filed under theme 20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 1. Acting on Desires
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Full Idea
A motive does have an aspect of desire, but it includes something about why a state of affairs is desired, and that includes something about the way my emotions are tied to my aim.
Gist of Idea
Motives involve desires, but also how the desires connect to our aims
Source
Linda Trinkaus Zagzebski (Virtues of the Mind [1996], II 2.6)
Book Ref
Zagzebski,Linda: 'Virtues of the Mind' [CUP 1996], p.131
A Reaction
It is standard usage that a 'motive' involves some movement towards achieving the desire, and not merely having the desire. I'd quite like to stand on top of Everest, but have absolutely no motivation to try to achieve it.
The
17 ideas
with the same theme
[desires and emotions as the main motivator of action]:
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1540
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Pleasure and pain guide our choices of good and bad
[Democritus]
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7408
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It is an error that reason should control the passions, which give right guidance on their own
[Hobbes, by Tuck]
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2362
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The will is just the last appetite before action
[Hobbes]
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20305
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Whenever we act, then desire is our very essence
[Spinoza]
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5489
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Humans have variable dispositions, and also power to change their dispositions
[Ellis]
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3814
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Preferences can result from deliberation, not just precede it
[Searle]
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23724
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A pure desire could be criticised if it were based on a false belief
[Smith,M]
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23723
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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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23735
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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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23738
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Humeans (unlike their opponents) say that desires and judgements can separate
[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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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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20202
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Motives involve desires, but also how the desires connect to our aims
[Zagzebski]
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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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20046
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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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