Dale Jamieson Quotes

Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we are not motivated in any way to do. In other words, I'm an "internalist" about morality.

Dale Jamieson

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• Morality
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• Since for me moral demands necessarily flow from human psychology, I don't think we can be obliged to do something that we are not motivated in any way to do. In other words, I'm an "internalist" about morality.

  

  Dale Jamieson
  • Psychology
  • Motivated
  • Morality