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As with many other aspects of psychology the study of motivation has its roots in philosophy Philosophers have addressed the issue of motivation in order to explain why people think or act, feel or behave in the ways they do.

History of philosophical views on motivation

=Socrates on motivation

Plato on motivation

Philosophical theories on motivation

Epistemology of motivation

Ethics of motivation


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