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- noun The
doctrine that a particular mental phenomenon, such asmotivation orjustification , has an internal rather than external basis
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The first of these, often referred to as internalism, holds that reasons for action must be grounded in an agent's prior motivations
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The classic case for this kind of internalism in the contemporary literature is made by Bernard Williams in his 1980 paper “Internal and External Reasons”.
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These claims we could call respectively normative and moral judgement internalism.
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More recently Williams 'internalism is attacked by Derek Parfit who places a heavy emphasis on a distinction between motivating reasons and normative reasons and urges that the credibility of internalism depends on confusing the two (Parfit 1997, 2007).
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If internalism in its various guises fails to generate an adequate account of the justification of memory belief, then we should consider externalism.
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Here we could speak of moral existence internalism and externalism.
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Because sophisticated consequentialists agree that motivation out of friendship must be personal, they must reject the idea that the ultimate moral reasons for acting in these cases are your motives, thereby rejecting the relatively weak motivational internalism that is implicit in the friendship critique (for weak motivational internalism, see the entry on moral cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism, and in particular the section on motivational internalism and the action-guiding character of moral judgements).
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An early critic of Williams is E.J. Bond in his book Reason and Value (1983) where he urges, echoing Frankena's earlier critique of internalism, that Williams 'argument is undermined if we distinguish clearly between what he calls motivating reasons and grounding reasons.
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The Long Shot uses short, sharp, direct sentences that hit you like a flurry of unending jabs that effectively strikes a perfect balance between external action and internalism.
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Sometimes “internalism” is used in a somewhat different sense to mean that facts about moral obligation are tied essentially to the motivational condition of those supposedly obligated and externalism as the denial of this claim.
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