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All motivation to act can be understood on the model of h... — Carmelics

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All motivation to act can be understood on the model of hunger

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1.What motivates us to act is always a desire
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2.All desires are to be understood on the model of hunger
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1.Kant's moral philosophy demonstrates that agents can act from duty (the categorical imperative) entirely independent of any felt want or lack.
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2.The hunger model requires a phenomenal state of deprivation, but purely rational motivation involves no such felt deficit.
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3.If even one class of genuine motivation lacks the deprivation-structure of hunger, the universal claim fails.
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1.Wittgenstein and Anscombe show that intentional action is constituted by reasons, not caused by internal appetitive states analogous to hunger.
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2.On the desire-as-hunger model, motivation is a push from a prior state, but reasons-based accounts treat motivation as directed toward intelligible ends without requiring a felt lack.
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3.Conflating reasons with appetites commits a category error that the hunger model cannot absorb without losing its explanatory distinctiveness.
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All desires are to be understood on the model of hunger87%Both reason and appetite can independently motivate action.82%When appetite and reason conflict, appetite can motivate action based ...81%What motivates us to act is always a desire78%

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How might such an argument go? Drawing upon some ideas that can be found in Plato’s dialogues, we might affirm two premises: (i) What motivates us to act is always a desire; (ii) all desires are to be understood on the model of hunger (see Meno 77c; Symposium 199e–200a, 204e).

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