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The modern distinction between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation dates back to mind-body dualism, a doctrine with enormous intuitive appeal because mental events seem to be fundamentally different from physical events. For example, Plato's body decayed when he died, but the idea of the person of Plato is still with us. Mind-body dualism was an effort to explain why the body, but not ideas, decay and perish with time. Read More




