In short, strategy could fail for internal or external reasons.
Nonetheless, for external reasons, you are unable to contemplate ever making them again.
decision and that it had "nothing to do with other external reasons".
Background reading: Williams "Internal and External Reasons" reprinted from his Moral Luck (Cambridge: CUP, 1981).
The external reasons for the sectarian catastrophe that threatens the Middle East are equally obvious.
Neither the internal nor the external reasons are intelligible on their own.
One of his greatest contributions to moral philosophy, the notion of internal and external reasons, is (as he complained) much misunderstood.
"To insist on ideas or external reasons in opposition to such deeply-felt inclinations is no more effective than the swallowing of a paper prescription," she wrote.
And there are ways for us to look and, very honestly, very clear-headedly, explain things saying, you know what, they're some external reasons why this happened.
What neither touches upon, however, are the external reasons that may have led Christians to develop a more formal internal hierarchy over time.
However with a suitable modification it provides an explanation of Semmelweis's failure which is argued to be superior to some of the external reasons often given.
