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KNOWING ONE’S OWN MOTIVATING REASONS (pages 121-135)

Seyyed Mohsen ESLAMI ABSTRACT: Reasons are not the same. Normative reasons need to be distinguished from non-normative reasons. Then, due to some considerations, we have to draw a distinction between explanatory reasons and motivating reasons. In this paper, I focus on a rather implicit assumption in drawing the explanatory-motivating distinction. Motivating reasons are mostly characterized as those reasons that the …

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