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Motivation As An Epistemic Ground [Pre-Print], Peter Antich
Motivation As An Epistemic Ground [Pre-Print], Peter Antich
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In several papers, Mark Wrathall argued that French phenomenologist, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, identifies a sui generis type of grounding, one not reducible to reason or natural causality. Following the Phenomenological tradition, Merleau-Ponty called this form of grounding “motivation,” and described it as the way in which one phenomenon spontaneously gives rise to another through its sense. While Wrathall’s suggestion has been taken up in the practical domain, its epistemic import has still not been fully explored. I would like to take up the epistemic dimension of Wrathall’s thought in this paper. Following Wrathall, I explain how motivation can help us understand …
Can There Be An Existentialist Virtue Ethics? [Pre-Print], Peter Antich
Can There Be An Existentialist Virtue Ethics? [Pre-Print], Peter Antich
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