1. Nonetheless I mean it when I say that practical wisdom, excellence in practical reason, is an ideal, and part of what I mean by saying that is that, although there may be much to learn from exemplars of practical reason or wisdom in action, it is always possible for us to reject or transcend any particular exemplar. Those persons or actions which we take to be exemplars of practical reason or wisdom do not set boundaries to what we may learn.
2. Anscombe, ‘Modern Moral Philosophy’, Philosophy 1958
3. If, at any rate, ‘motivate’ means ‘get us going into action’. But how else is it to be construed, except in the circularity-generating sense 'get us going into action in the way that desires do'?