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Full Idea
Motives will cause persons for form intentions; it is intentions which more directly guide actions.
Gist of Idea
Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions
Source
Julia Driver (The Virtues and Human Nature [1996], 3)
Book Ref
'How Should One Live? On the Virtues', ed/tr. Crisp,Roger [OUP 1998], p.117
A Reaction
This is invites the question of whether there is a sharp distinction between the motive and the action. Detectives look for motives, but law courts look for intentions.
23144 | Virtue should be defined by consequences, not by states of mind [Driver] |
23148 | Virtues are character traits or dispositions which produce good consequences for others [Driver] |
23146 | Motives produce intentions, which lead to actions [Driver] |
23147 | Good intentions are not necessary for virtue [Driver] |
23150 | Control of pregnancy and knowledge of paternity have downgraded chastity [Driver] |
23149 | If generosity systematically turned recipients into parasites, it wouldn't be a virtue [Driver] |