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    Challenges→Morality is the proper science and business of mankind in general

    Hume demonstrated that moral judgments are grounded in sentiment and passion, not reason or demonstrable science.

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    • 1.Moral disagreements persist despite rational argument, suggesting sentiment, not reason, drives moral conviction.
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    • 2.We condemn harm before reasoning about it, indicating sentiment precedes moral judgment logically and developmentally.
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    • 3.No factual observations alone (is-statements) logically entail moral conclusions (ought-statements) without additional premises.
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    • 1.Sentiments vary wildly across cultures; if morality were sentiment-based, cross-cultural moral progress would be inexplicable.
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    • 2.We rationally revise our sentiments when we discover factual errors, showing reason constrains and corrects moral feeling.
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    • 3.Hume himself distinguishes sympathy from mere passion and grounds consistent moral judgments in stable human nature, not arbitrary emotion.
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