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Fake Noûs

Moral Motivation

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Michael Huemer
Feb 28, 2026
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Here, I discuss how David Hume is wrong about moral motivation. Reason sometimes produces moral judgments, which can motivate and justify actions, independent of desires.*

[ *Based on: Ethical Intuitionism, ch. 7. ]

This part of my book was unjustly ignored. :( It deserves attention since it refutes the leading theory of action and the most common argumen…

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