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    Supports→The a priori argument for the strongest form of psychological egoism does not support the weak form that altruism is never pure.

    C.D. Broad distinguished self-love from self-interest, showing that logical derivations from motivational internalism do not automatically entail that all motivation is self-benefiting.

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    Key Terms

    C.D. Broad(as one of the philosophers cited as having investigated these phenomena)
    A British philosopher (1887-1971) who wrote extensively about philosophy of mind and was open to examining paranormal claims seriously.
    Entail(In logical reasoning and argumentation)
    To logically follow or guarantee as a necessary consequence; if something is true, what does it force to also be true?
    Logical derivations(in philosophical reasoning)
    Conclusions that follow necessarily from a starting idea or principle using the rules of logic.
    motivational internalism(As applied by error theorists to moral claims, extended here by analogy to pain claims)
    The view that the truth of certain claims (e.g., moral claims) requires or entails intrinsically motivating states
    self-interest

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    (A motivation that Machiavelli suggests can align with the public good)
    A person's own personal advantage or benefit, what they want for themselves.
    self-love(Kant's moral philosophy)
    The rubric under which all non-moral motives can be subsumed; motivations oriented toward one's own desires, inclinations, or interests rather than the moral law.

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