Thanks for making point 2. Moral oughts need not motivate sociopaths, who sometimes admit (when there is no cost of doing so) that they’ve done wrong and just don’t give a damn. The “is-ought” gap is better relabeled the “thought-motivation” gap. “Ought”s are thoughts; motives are something else.
Thanks for making point 2. Moral oughts need not motivate sociopaths, who sometimes admit (when there is no cost of doing so) that they’ve done wrong and just don’t give a damn. The “is-ought” gap is better relabeled the “thought-motivation” gap. “Ought”s are thoughts; motives are something else.