Moral Knowledge And Moral Motivation

If moral judgment does express belief,given that belief by itself cannot motivate an agent to act,then moral judgment cannot motivate.But in everyday life,it seems that moral judgment always implies moral motivation.If an agent judges that he is morally obligated to do something,then he will do it.This is where the contradiction appears.Therefore some philosophers conclude that,either moral judgment doesn't express belief,or it doesn't imply motivation.But this conclusion is counter-intuitive,since life experience tells us that moral judgment both expresses belief and implies motivation.This is "The Moral Problem," so called by Michael Smith.The task of this paper is to solve "The Moral Problem."The view of this paper is that,moral judgment not only expresses belief but also implies moral motivation.Although other kinds of beliefs may or may not imply motivation,moral judgment,as a special kind of belief,must imply motivation.A agent who genuinely makes a moral judgment in his heart must also has moral motivation raised in his heart.A agent who truly knows about moral truth will unite his moral knowledge with moral action.Your truth moral knowledge is only what you truly act out in your everyday life.The last part of this paper deals with the question why "The Moral Problem" appears in modem western philosophy.Having made a sharp distinction between internal truth(knowledge)and external truth(knowledge),we can see clearly that it is because western philosophers wrongly treat moral truth(knowledge)as a kind of external truth(knowledge)that they give rise to the split between moral knowledge and moral motivation.Philosophers from ancient China always correctly treated moral truth as internal truth;thus they never encountered"The Moral Problem." The unity between moral knowledge and moral action was a truism recognized by everyone.