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Full Idea
Foot advocates the view that anyone has reason to cultivate the virtues, even if they lack the desire to do so at a given moment.
Gist of Idea
We all have reason to cultivate the virtues, even when we lack the desire
Source
report of Philippa Foot (Moral Beliefs [1959], Pt II) by John Hacker-Wright - Philippa Foot's Moral Thought 2 'Concepts'
Book Ref
Hacker-Wright,John: 'Philippa Foot's Moral Thought' [Bloomsbury 2013], p.49
A Reaction
The view which she soon abandoned, but then returned to later. It specifically repudiates the view of Hume, that only desires can motivate. I'm unsure, because the concept of 'reason' strikes me as too imprecise. She sees self-interest as a reason.
Related Idea
Idea 23694 All criterions of practical rationality derive from goodness of will [Foot]