ABSTRACT
Hence, this is how we should understand Reid’s claim that animal motives do not suppose a judgment, or a judgment about worth, as Rowe claims. They might involve a moral judgment like, ‘Alfred was so good (morally) in helping me with my work. He really shouldn’t have.’ This is the kind of judgment that is involved in gratitude, for example. However, gratitude is not directed toward morally or prudentially good ends, and hence need not suppose a judgment that the action I ammoved to perform is one I perform because it is in my interest or is what duty require. The object of my gratitude is the good of Alfred. Hence, I might be moved to hug him, for instance, to wish him well, and to thank him, but not because I ought, morally (or prudentially), to do so.
