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Full Idea
Instead of assuming that your motivation depends on your emotional state, we might say that your emotional state depends on how you are motivated to act.
Gist of Idea
Maybe your emotions arise from you motivations, rather than being their cause
Source
Rowland Stout (Action [2005], 3 'Emotions')
Book Ref
Stout,Rowland: 'Action' [Acumen 2005], p.48
A Reaction
[He says this move is made by Kant, Thomas Nagel and McDowell] Stout favours the view that it is external facts which mainly give rise to actions, and presumably these facts are intrinsically motivating, prior to any emotions. I don't disagree.