Hume draws important anti-rationalist moral conclusions from this line of thought. One obvious implication is that reason cannot be the motive to moral action; if reason cannot motivate any action, it cannot motivate moral action. A second further conclusion is that morality and its basic principles cannot be grounded in reason. This one follows both from his views about the “inertness” of reason generally, and from his assumption that morality has real motivational power: “Morals excite passion