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Moral Motivation provides a history of moral motivation by ten eminent scholars, covering Plato, Aristotle, Spinoza, Locke, Hume, Kant, the consequentialists and others. It shows the complexity of the historical treatment of moral motivation and, moreover, how intertwined discussion of moral motivation is with central aspects of ethical theory.
Cover; Moral Motivation: a history; COPYRIGHT; CONTENTS ; CONTRIBUTORS ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; Introduction: Moral Motivation and Its History; Moral Motivation and Contemporary Philosophy ; Moral Motivation in the History of Philosophy ; A History of Moral Motivation ; Chapter one: Plato and Moral Motivation; 1. Committing to Virtue ; 2. Moral Motivation and Moral Psychology ; 3. Forms as (Moral) Motivators ; 4. The Varieties of Motivation ; 5. Rulers, Philosophers, and Motivation ; ACKNOWLEDGMENT ; Reflection: Moral motivation: Achilles and homer's iliad
Chapter two: Aristotle on Moral Motivation1. Prohairesis ; 2. Natural Virtue ; 3. Self-Regarding Motivation? ; 4. Pleasures and Pains; Chapter three: A Later (and Nonstandard) Aristotelian Account of Moral Motivation; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; Reflection: Cicero on moral motivation and seeing (how) to be good; Chapter four: Moral Motivation in Christian and Jewish Medieval Philosophy; 1 ; 2 ; 3 ; 4 ; ACKNOWLEDGMENT ; Chapter five: Act and Moral Motivation in Spinoza's Ethics; 1. Egoism ; 2. Good ; 3. Virtue ; 4. Right Action ; 5. Motive and Agency
Reflection: Moral motivation and music as moral judgeChapter six: Locke on Pleasure, Law, and Moral Motivation; Moral Laws, Obligation, and Motivation ; Pleasure, Obligation, and Motivation ; Rationality, Motives, and Autonomous Actions ; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; Chapter seven: Hume on Moral Motivation; Introduction: Hume's Sentiment-based Ethics; 1. Belief and Passion: Mutual Influences ; 2 . Influences of the Imagination on the Motivating Passions ; 3. Moral Motivation in the Treatise ; 4. The Enquiry : Hume's Mature Moral Philosophy
5. Justice and Humanity in the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals 6 . Conclusion: Pride and the Protection of Character ; Chapter eight: Kant and Moral Motivation; 1. Kant on Moral Motivation ; What Is Distinctive about Kant's View of Moral Motivation? ; What Is the Will, That Is, What Is the Thing That Is Motivated, for Kant? ; What Kinds of Motives Are There, for Kant? ; What, Then, Is the Purely Rational Motive? ; 2. What Motivates the Kantian? ; Conclusion: The Value of Free Rational Willing; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ; Chapter nine: Moral Motivation in Post-Kantian Philosophy
1 . Leaving Kant's Pure Motives Behind 2. Obligation and Motivation: Fichte's Idea of Moral Motivation ; 3 . Actualized Freedom as Motive of the Will: Hegel's Overcoming of "Morality" in "Ethical Life" ; Reflection: Moral motivation and the limits of moral agency in literary naturalism dreiser's sister carrie; Chapter ten: Consequentialism, Moral Motivation, and the Deontic Relevance of Motives; 1 ; Bentham ; Jeremy Bentham's ; Austin ; John Austin's ; Mill
Includes bibliographical references and index.
New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]