Avraham Sommer
Biographic Data
| ID | 8836161 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avraham Sommer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avraham |
| FAMILY NAME | Sommer |
| SIGNATURE | SOMMER A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Rutgers Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 1 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Neglected Argument of Hutcheson's on Moral Motivation
In a brief passage in the first two editions of his Inquiry, Hutcheson gives an argument that has been little noticed in the literature, against the view that what motivates us to act morally is the prospect of taking pleasure in our evaluation of ourselves as moral. I reconstruct Hutcheson's argument and show how it differs from a similar argument from Butler and Hume. I also show that Hutcheson's argument is inconsistent with another important …
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A Neglected Argument of Hutcheson's on Moral Motivation
In a brief passage in the first two editions of his Inquiry, Hutcheson gives an argument that has been little noticed in the literature, against the view that what motivates us to act morally is the prospect of taking pleasure in our evaluation of ourselves as moral. I reconstruct Hutcheson's argument and show how it differs from a similar argument from Butler and Hume. I also show that Hutcheson's argument is inconsistent with another important …
Argument map (1 work) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (1 work) · Moral psychology (1 work) · Philosophical Ethics and Theory (1 work) · Pleasure (1 work) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (1 work) · Utilitarianism (1 work)