If moral motivation can be genuinely other-directed in Leibniz's system, then his ethics exceeds any hedonism, which must ultimately reduce all motivation to self-regarding pleasure.

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Leibniz: Leibniz is a German philosopher and mathematician from the 1600s-1700s who developed calculus (a powerful math tool for measuring change and areas) independently around the same time as Isaac Newton. He's famous for creating much of the notation we still use in mathematics today and for arguing that everything in the universe follows logical principles. His ideas profoundly influenced modern science, mathematics, and philosophy, making him one of history's most important thinkers.
Moral motivation(as the central disagreement between Kant and Hume): What causes a person to actually do the right thing—whether it's reason, emotion, desire, or something else.
ethics(Fichte's System of Ethics): The philosophical science that provides an a priori deduction of our moral nature in general and of our specific duties as human beings.
hedonism(Normative/axiological hedonism concerning what has value): The view that the mental state of pleasure is the only thing having intrinsic value, and the mental state of pain is the only intrinsic evil.

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