If Gael chooses to cultivate the impartial disposition, he will diminish his future compliance
with reasons of partiality regardless of whether those reasons are reasons to benefit or reasons to consider.
The connection
with reasons is the first and most widely accepted mark of intentional action, even if there is disagreement about how to spell it out.
Reason states are not to be equated
with reasons in Audi's terminology: reasons for Audi are propositions.
I grant that a different reason-concept, one that abandons RR, might play other important theoretical roles, even if it cannot play the roles associated
with reasons' peculiar normativity.
It resonates with those who think that at least some of our impulses provide us
with reasons to act, but who doubt that the mere having of an impulse or desire, as such, counts in favor of acting.
Schroeder is concerned only
with reasons for action here, and so the comparison will be limited but still, hopefully, illustrative.
being valuable is not a property that provides us
with reasons. Rather, to call something valuable is to say that it has other properties that provide reasons for behaving in certain ways with regard to it.