 In the passages above, Price is making three claims that are, on his view, inseparable. The first is an espousal of motivational internalism about obligation. To recognize an action as morally required (or forbidden) is to be motivated to do it (or abstain from doing it). The second is a claim about the connection between cognition and feeling: the recognition of the moral character of an action necessarily arouses appropriate feelings in us. We cannot, for example, breach the moral law without suffering remorse and pain. Thirdly, he takes it that, if we are morally obliged to act then we are obliged to act, period. Why? Because the principles of morality are principles of reason; thus we have decisive reason to do what morality dictates. For some philosophers, the question of what I ought to do has a moral and a deliberative reading. Once I have determined what morality requires of me, the deliberative question of what, all things considered, I should do is still open. Price denies this gap. For him the question of why I ought to do what I morally ought to do makes no sense, for it is simply asking why I ought to do what I ought.