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

    Depression and akrasia produce well-documented cases where agents make genuine moral judgments yet experience no corresponding motivational pull, suggesting motivation is contingent rather than constitutive of moral judgment.

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    Motivational pull(as used in philosophy of action)
    The inner drive or desire that makes you actually want to do something—the feeling that propels you to act on a belief.
    akrasia(Used to motivate the pluralism debate: pluralists claim only pluralism can adequately explain this phenomenon.)
    Weakness of will; the condition in which an agent knowingly chooses a less good option over a better one.
    constitutive(an alternative type of relationship the grounding relation might be)
    Describes how something is made up of or formed from basic components that define its essential nature.
    contingent(De Interpretatione 12–13)
    Equated with 'possible'; on the two-sided interpretation, contingency excludes necessity (possibility implies non-necessity).
    moral judgment

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