Give me an example of what you have in mind.

你能举个例子吗
The shopkeeper example.

那个店主的例子
If he decides that he wants to give the person the money to do the right thing

如果他认为要做正确的事给顾客找对钱
and he decides that it's his motive to do so

而且认为是他的动机在驱使他这么做
because he wants to be moral then isn't that sort of defeating trying to...

因为他想做个有道德的人那不就与...
isn't that sort of defeating the purity of his action

如果道德是被他的动机决定的话
if morality is determined by his motive?

那不就与他行为的纯粹性相矛盾了吗
His motive is then to act morally.

那么他的动机就是有道德的行为
I see. So, you're imagining a case

我懂了所以你在想象一种情况
not of the purely selfish calculating shopkeeper

这里不是一个非常自私的店主
but of one who says, well, he may consider shortchanging the customer,

而是这样一个人他可能会考虑少找顾客零钱
but then he says, "Not,

但是他说 "并不是因为