Particularly : Why do we live ?What is 'motive', 'reason' and how are they inter-related?"To think is an act of choice. The key to what you so recklessly call “human nature,” the open secret you live with, yet dread to name, is the fact that man is a being of volitional consciousness. Reason does not work automatically; thinking is not a mechanical process; the connections of logic are not made by instinct. The function of your stomach, lungs or heart is automatic; the function of your mind is not. In any hour and issue of your life, you are free to think or to evade that effort. But you are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival—so that for you, who are a human being, the question “to be or not to be” is the question “to think or not to think.” “A being of volitional consciousness has no automatic course of behavior. He needs a code of values to guide his actions."
John Galt's speech; Ayn Rand
That is to say, "reason" is volitional, and the motive for the volition is “to be or not to be”; “to think or not to think," i.e., to be rational or not to be rational.
This is not circular logic. At any time of any day, you have the power to stop thinking, either by taking drugs or getting drunk; by evading issues; by remaining ignorant; by denying truth; by closing your eyes and ears; by keeping your head down; by turning your back on evil.
The motive for reason is because the higher calling of man, which Aristotle called "Man qua Man," is to act according to Man's nature, which is rationality. Man's definition, that which sets him apart from all other intelligent creatures, is that he is considered "the rational animal."What is 'motive', 'reason' and how are they inter-related?The reason for motive is ultimately physical survival. The human brain still retains residual animal instincts from early primitive forms. Today in a multi-facet society motives ensure survival on a more material and complex level. The motive for reason is mankind discovering a useful and more reliable way to survive using the intellect and problem solving to ensure physical sustainance. Motives and reasoning comes from intentions, which underlies and influence almost everything we choose. We live because we have existence. At this stage of evolution, existence expressed as human life has the capability to know its source (the real difference between human life and animal life). When human life discovers it source it takes on a profound transformation classically described as Self or God Realization. In the East this has been an ancient knowingness as the pursuit of Nirvana or what we know as Enlightenment.What is 'motive', 'reason' and how are they inter-related?I have heard phases like "bring to reason" or "stand to reason" but never "reason of motive" nor "motive of reason".
Previous answerer interprets your question as "reasons for motive" and "motives for reason" and manages an interesting answer, but his answer shows that your phrases aren't familiar to him either.
So I would try to convince you that there is no profound philosophical difference between "motive" and "reason". Motive refers to an inner drive, impulse, intention, etc. that causes a person to do something or act in a certain way.
That is why motive has a strong presence in legal discourse, to denote the cause of the action being prosecuted.
On the other hand, reason will be used to explain the cause of actions in general. If human it implies a logical cause "I did it for a reason" but it can be applied to non human actions "there are reasons why the earth turns". So you will find reason used more in scientific context.What is 'motive', 'reason' and how are they inter-related?
Before Motive Reason after = What motive did you have to give her my money, what is your reason? But can be used in the same sentence.
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