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Supposedly emotions destroy voluntariness however, when emotions motivate one as an end, then voluntariness is increased.
But pleasure is an emotion so sometimes it seems that great pleasure does not remove but rather implies great volition.
My question is, when can one tell when pleasure motivates ones actions. Motivation has, after all, two senses: as a feeling that comes before an action or as a feeling that comes afterwards.
I think one solution might be, that pleasure which serves as the end of an action does not necessarily come before or after an action. It may be that a pleasurable impulse comes before an action and because of it, serves to motivate an attempt to gain pleasure. Likewise with pain and vice versa.
So then, the real answer is that pain and pleasure can only be motivators qua being reasons for an action and not qua their temporal relations to the action.
Does anyone have other solutions?
But pleasure is an emotion so sometimes it seems that great pleasure does not remove but rather implies great volition.
My question is, when can one tell when pleasure motivates ones actions. Motivation has, after all, two senses: as a feeling that comes before an action or as a feeling that comes afterwards.
I think one solution might be, that pleasure which serves as the end of an action does not necessarily come before or after an action. It may be that a pleasurable impulse comes before an action and because of it, serves to motivate an attempt to gain pleasure. Likewise with pain and vice versa.
So then, the real answer is that pain and pleasure can only be motivators qua being reasons for an action and not qua their temporal relations to the action.
Does anyone have other solutions?