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Kantian Morals and Humean Motives
Author(s) -
CLARK PHILIP
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
philosophy and phenomenological research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 1933-1592
pISSN - 0031-8205
DOI - 10.1111/j.1933-1592.2004.tb00328.x
Subject(s) - internalism and externalism , moral psychology , categorical imperative , moral disengagement , epistemology , moral reasoning , philosophy , categorical variable , psychology , social cognitive theory of morality , social psychology , morality , computer science , machine learning
The idea that moral imperatives are categorical is commonly used to support internalist claims about moral judgment. I argue that the categorical quality of moral requirements shows at most that moral motivation need not flow from a background desire to be moral. It does not show that moral judgments can motivate by themselves, or that amoralism is impossible.