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Why do we do good things for others? What are the mental or emotional processes that lead to our holding the door open for a stranger or supporting a friend in need? Big Think takes a look at whether being moral is motivated by passion or reason, applied to modern-day scenarios including people's adherence to COVID-19 health recommendations.

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Big ThinkAre your moral choices driven by logic or emotion?In the 18th century, David Hume argued that we are only motivated to do something if our passions direct us to do so. Was he right?
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Someone said a tech policy was "necessary and impossible" and my neurons went in overdrive. I'm going to blame some Aristotelian logician.
1000wordphilosophy.com/2018/12
plato.stanford.edu/entries/mod

Now cleansing my mind with some salutary #DavidHume: "these words are absolutely without any meaning, when employed either in philosophical reasonings or common life".
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1000-Word Philosophy: An Introductory AnthologyPossibility and Necessity: An Introduction to ModalityAuthor: Andre Leo Rusavuk Category: Metaphysics Word count: 990 We frequently say things like, ‘This seems possible,’ ‘That can’t be done,’ ‘This must happen,’ ‘She might be able to . . ,’ ‘This is…
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