The phrase "intellectual motivation" is correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to the drive or incentive that comes from a person's intellectual curiosity or desire to learn and understand new things. Example: "The students' intellectual motivation was evident in their participation in class discussions and their enthusiasm for the subject matter."
AI today is exhibiting astounding technology and having a profound impact, but much of the intellectual motivation that gave rise to the field has fallen by the wayside.
For his part, Mr. Kirkpatrick believes that Mr. Zuckerberg is a visionary, who started Facebook — at 19! — out of a "truly intellectual motivation about an impactful new form of communication".
It is in fact quite obvious that the scientists' strongest intellectual motivation was Einstein's "striving after generalization," and that if they appealed to power at all, it was the interconnected formidable power of abstraction and imagination.
What led him to adopt the concept of genocide was not so much personal as legal and intellectual motivation: for years, ever since he had read Mein Kampf, he had been following Nazi policies closely, and the Germans' treatment of the Poles, with their deliberate extermination of the Polish intelligentsia, and then the Jews, provided the justification for his novel concept.
Such bodes well for the eventual writing of my Ph.D. dissertation, that of exploring consonances and dissonances in terms of the creative genesis, textual structure, and intellectual motivation and acuity in those literary figures who were also physicians, such as Chekhov and William Carlos Williams, among others.
In an environment where students could easily turn their intellectual motivation and academic drive into competition, instead, cooperation and encouragement abound.
Letters of Recommendation/Evaluation Service: Most law schools require applicants to submit letters of recommendation from professors or employers to gain a different perspective on the applicant's academic strength, intellectual curiosity, motivation, communication skills, and personal qualities.
Too many students from historically underrepresented populations feel that even with the intellectual capabilities, motivation and work ethic needed for college, success is not guaranteed.
Hence, policy makers must design professional development programs, such as leadership studies, in order to teach the components of transformational leadership; idealized influence, inspirational motivation, intellectual stimulation and individual consideration to future administrators.
Some will have the intellectual capacity and motivation to really make something of this opportunity, wherever they happen to be born.
Rawls deliberately invokes Kantian rationalism (or anti-sentimentalism) in explaining the intellectual or theoretical motivation behind his construction, and the two principles of justice that he argues would be agreed upon under the contractual conditions he specifies represent a kind of egalitarian political liberalism.
