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Single Idea 21363

[filed under theme 20. Action / C. Motives for Action / 3. Acting on Reason / c. Reasons as causes ]

Full Idea

Motivation is causality seen from within.

Gist of Idea

Motivation is causality seen from within

Source

Arthur Schopenhauer (Fourfold Root of Princ of Sufficient Reason [1813], p.214), quoted by Christopher Janaway - Schopenhauer 2 'Fourfold'

Book Ref

Janaway,Christopher: 'Schopenhauer' [OUP 2002], p.26

A Reaction

This is more illuminating about causation than about motivation, since we can be motivated without actually doing anything.

The 8 ideas from 'Fourfold Root of Princ of Sufficient Reason'

21920 No need for a priori categories, since sufficient reason shows the interrelations [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
21362 Necessity is physical, logical, mathematical or moral [Schopenhauer, by Janaway]
21361 For Schopenhauer, material things would not exist without the mind [Schopenhauer, by Janaway]
21921 Concepts are abstracted from perceptions [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
21918 Sufficient Reason can't be proved, because all proof presupposes it [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
21919 Object for a subject and representation are the same thing [Schopenhauer]
21917 The four explanations: objects by causes, concepts by ground, maths by spacetime, ethics by motive [Schopenhauer, by Lewis,PB]
21363 Motivation is causality seen from within [Schopenhauer]