ABSTRACT
For decades, the existence and need for extrinsic and intrinsic motivations, the human necessity to receive and achieve good, has been unquestionable. What is debatable, however, is the reduction of them to just the pleasant and useful levels of human good (the upper and lower needs’ levels on Maslow’s hierarchy). Following Aristotelian tradition, this chapter argues that to be considered fully and entirely human, a taxonomy of motivations should include the moral good, which passionately contributes to making us better as human beings, clearly and distinctly from pleasant and useful. Therefore, the “map of motivations” presented in the previous chapter has now been expanded to include extrinsic moral motivation: the universal desire or willingness to receive the moral good (respect, fairness, appreciation, etc.) that we deserve, founded on our human dignity – a motivation that is key in understanding the ultimate reason for why we trust people.
