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    Cognitivism is harmful to morality. — Carmelics
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    Cognitivism is harmful to morality.

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    • 1.Moral motivation derives primarily from sentiment and habituation, not propositional knowledge (Hume, Aristotle's ethical formation).
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    • 2.Framing morality as a domain of facts to be known shifts moral education toward intellectual instruction rather than character cultivation.
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    • 3.Overemphasis on moral knowledge cultivates moral spectators who analyze rather than agents who act (Schiller's critique of Kantian moralism).
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    • 1.Cognitivism invites endless metaethical dispute about what moral facts are, eroding practical moral confidence (Herder's anti-rationalist critique).
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    • 2.Communities with robust pre-theoretical moral solidarity are weakened when members demand cognitive justification for inherited norms (MacIntyre, After Virtue).
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    • 1.Cognitivism provokes skepticism about morality.
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    • 2.Cognitivism distracts people from the real foundations of morality.
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    • 3.Cognitivism distracts people from reinforcing the real foundations of morality.
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    A further important aspect of Herder’s meta-ethics has already been touched on: the complex position that he already develops in How Philosophy Can Become that sentimentalism is the correct account of the nature of morality; that cognitivism is therefore useless as an account of morality or as an approach for inculcating it, and is moreover harmful because it provokes skepticism about morality and distracts people from the real foundations of morality and from reinforcing them; and that philosop
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