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    It is not the case that All motivation to act can 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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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