Sentence examples for motivation held from inspiring English sources

They will identify different human beings as having full moral status only if humans can have the cognitive or other psychological capacities held to be necessary for respect but lack the empathy or motivation held to be necessary for membership in a moral community (or vice-versa).

Butler criticized those forms of natural law and Hobbesian accounts of motivation that held that I am morally motivated and given an authoritative reason for acting by a law sanctioned with rewards and punishments by a divine or civil legislator.

Crusius by contrast accepted Scotus's double theory of motivation, and held that there are actions that we ought to do regardless of any ends we have, even the end of our own perfection and happiness.

In Trial by Jury hypocrisy is revealed as the characters' motivations are held up to satire, and Gilbert mocks the underlying absurdity of the judicial procedures.

That motivation even holds for the most dedicated gamers — those who are nearing the professional end of the spectrum.

Leipheimer also said his Astana team had something to prove here, and would have extra motivation to hold on to the race lead.

A large part of the motivation to hold a major hackathon on campus is to build a brighter, more cohesive programming environment on Yale's campus.

By name, the conference's theme aligns with Western conceptions of Internet governance, but China's underlying motivation for holding the conference was quite different.

This self-interest is a significant motivation for holding back resources for fear that they will not be invested in ways that will directly benefit the paying country.

We find strong evidence that mutual fund long positions in ETNs significantly underperform and that the motivations to hold ETNs lie outside of maximizing returns.

Einstein originally introduced this term in his pioneering 1917 paper on cosmology, with a very specific motivation: contemporary cosmological thought held the universe to be static, and the additional term was required for constructing static model universes within the framework of general relativity.