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Full Idea
I deny the claim that good intentions are necessary for virtue.
Gist of Idea
Good intentions are not necessary for virtue
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.119
A Reaction
Presumably one could continually do the right thing, because it was your duty or your job, without actually being well motivated for it.