LSAT 136 – Section 2 – Question 20
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Carrie: Our motivations for our actions are not subject to our conscious control. Therefore, the only thing that can be required for an action to be morally good is that it fulfill a moral obligation.
Speaker 1 Summary
Daniel concludes that fulfilling a moral obligation isn’t sufficient to make an action morally good. This is because one requirement to be morally good is that the action is performed with the right motivations.
Speaker 2 Summary
Carrie concludes that the only thing that is required for an action to be morally good is fulfilling a moral obligation. This is because we can’t consciously control our motivations.
Objective
We’re looking for a point of disagreement. The speakers disagree about whether being performed with the right motivations is required for an action to be good. Daniel thinks the right motivations are required. Carrie thinks the right motivations are not a requirement. They also disagree about whether fulfilling a moral obligation is sufficient to for an action to be good.
A
No one can be morally required to do something that is impossible to do.
Neither speaker expresses an opinion. Nobody refers to the possibility or impossibility of performing an action.
B
Some actions that are performed with the right motivations are not morally good.
Neither speaker expresses an opinion. For Daniel, the right motivations are necessary for being good, but that doesn’t imply an opinion about whether there exist actions that fulfill that necessary condition but are not good.
C
All actions that fulfill moral obligations are performed in order to fulfill moral obligations.
Neither speaker expresses an opinion. Although Daniel refers to the right motivations, he does not specify the particular motivation of wanting to fulfill a moral obligation. We do not know what constitutes a right motivation.
D
An action performed with the wrong motivations cannot be morally good.
This is a point of disagreement. Daniel thinks the right motivations are required to be good. Carrie thinks the right motivations are not required. So, Carrie believes an action performed with the wrong motivations can be good, as long as it fulfills a moral obligation.
E
If a person’s motivations for acting are based on a sense of duty, then that person’s action is morally good.
Neither expresses an opinion. Daniel believes the right motivations are necessary to be good, but that doesn’t imply a belief about whether they are sufficient to be good. He also doesn’t say whether being motivated by duty constitutes a right motivation.
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