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    A realistic account of human psychology cannot straightfo... — Carmelics
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    A realistic account of human psychology cannot straightforwardly ground the universal scope and intersubjective validity of moral judgments

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    • 1.Human motivation and psychological mechanisms are always situational, local, and of limited scope
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    • 2.In-group bias is a universal trait of human psychology
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    • 3.Universal and intersubjectively valid moral judgments require motivation that transcends situational and local limits
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    • 1.Adam Smith's 'impartial spectator' shows how partial psychological mechanisms can generate impartial normative standards through reflective refinement.
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    • 2.The psychological origin of a capacity does not determine the normative scope it can achieve when subjected to rational correction and social practice.
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    • 3.Evolutionary and cultural psychology document the expansion of moral circles over time, demonstrating that local biases are contingently revisable, not structurally fixed.
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    • 1.Hume's sentimentalist program demonstrates that universal moral judgments can be grounded in shared affective responses without requiring motivation that transcends human psychology.
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    • 2.Intersubjective validity requires only convergence under idealized conditions of calm reflection, not the elimination of situational psychological origins.
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    Prima facie, the difficulty of this enterprise consists in squaring a realistic account of human psychology with the universal scope and intersubjective validity of moral judgments, since human motivation and psychological mechanisms seem to be always situational, local, and of rather limited scope. Moreover, as evolutionary psychologists tell us in–group bias seems to be a universal trait of human psychology. One of the most promising attempts to solve this problem is certainly due to the tradi
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