ABSTRACT
As I have shown in the last two chapters, Hume’s moral ontology and epistemology make internalism with regard to motivation not just possible but unavoidable. Hume himself does indeed claim that moral distinctions motivate; but he does not offer a clearly formulated internalist theory. This may explain why some Hume critics doubt whether he is an internalist.1 Instead of piecing together textual evidence for a Humean internalism, I turn to Mencius for a particular version of internalism, which I take to be consistent with Hume’s view.
