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    Challenges→Some degree of motivation is a minimally necessary condition for a genuine moral judgment.

    Amoralists, as described by Shafer-Landau and Railton, can sincerely assent to moral propositions while lacking corresponding motivation, demonstrating that judgment and motivation are conceptually separable.

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    Key Terms

    Amoralists(as used in ethics)
    People who understand what is morally right but don't feel motivated to actually do it—like someone who knows they should help others but genuinely doesn't care.
    Assent to(as used in philosophy)
    To agree with or accept something as true.
    Conceptually separable(as used in philosophy)
    Two things that can be understood as distinct or independent from each other, even if they're often connected in real life.
    Moral propositions(as used in ethics)
    Statements claiming something is right or wrong, good or bad—like 'helping others is good' or 'stealing is wrong.'
    Motivation(what makes people choose to do things)

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    The desires, goals, or reasons that drive someone to act in a particular way.
    Railton(as a philosopher who developed a key theory in 1984)
    Peter Railton is a contemporary American philosopher who developed an influential version of consequentialism that tries to address criticisms of the theory.
    Shafer-Landau(as a philosopher referenced in ethics)
    Russ Shafer-Landau is a contemporary philosophy professor who writes about morality and argues that moral truths exist independently of what anyone believes.
    judgment(Russell and Ramsey's multiple-relation theory of judgment)
    A multiple relation of the mind or mental factors to many objects — the constituents of the proposition judged — rather than a single relation to a single propositional object

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