Moral Sentimentalism |
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Authors: | Michael Slote |
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Institution: | (1) Florida State University, 419 Diffenbaugh, Tallahassee, FL, USA |
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Abstract: | In a way reminiscent of Hume's approach in the Treatise, a reviving moral sentimentalism can use the notion of empathy to ground both its normative account of moral obligation and
its metaethical account of moral language. A virtuous person is empathically caring about others and expresses such feeling/motivation
in her actions. But the judgment that something is right or good is also based in empathy, and the sentimentalist can espouse
a form of moral realism by making use of a Kripkean reference-fixer theory of the role of feelings of approval and disapproval
in moral judgment. |
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Keywords: | moral sentimentalism empathy care virtue reference-fixing |
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