moral judgment and motivation

By: Zhang, Xiao

One thing we can observe in many situations is that, if someone changes her mind about a moral issue (i.e., makes a new moral judgment), normally her motivation will change accordingly. For example, if you come to realize that a party advocates exactly your views and represents your interests, then you should have some motivation to vote for this party in the election. In philosophical moral psychology, the view that accepts the previous connection between moral judgments and motivation at face value is usually called 'motivational judgment internalism'. Although 'internalism' itself is a rather vague label that can be used to refer to a number of different meta-ethical views, 'motivational judgment internalism' (hereafter 'internalism') is a relatively clear view. In one way or another, it claims that moral judgments necessarily motivate or, to put this in another way, that there is a necessary connection between moral judgments and motivation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1835204198
• ISBN13: 9781835204191
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Awasthihb
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"