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    Hume must either ground sympathy for public interest in m... — Carmelics
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    Hume must either ground sympathy for public interest in more basic natural sentiments or abandon the claim that all morally good actions have natural, non-moral motives.

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    • 1.Sympathy with public interest is neither obviously non-moral nor inherent in human nature.
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    • 2.Hume's moral theory requires that all morally good actions—including those associated with artificial virtues—have natural, non-moral motives.
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    • 3.If sympathy with public interest cannot be derived from more basic natural sentiments, it cannot satisfy this requirement.
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    • 1.Hume's account of sympathy is a general communicative mechanism that transmits any sentiment, not a fixed inventory of discrete natural impulses.
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    • 2.If sympathy is a formal psychological process rather than a specific motive, it can generate concern for public interest without requiring a more primitive non-moral foundation.
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    • 3.The dilemma falsely presupposes that Hume's natural/artificial distinction maps onto a non-moral/moral motive distinction, when Hume himself treats sympathy as natural in kind.
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    • 1.Annette Baier argues that Hume grounds artificial virtues in the natural sentiment of pride and shame cultivated through social convention, dissolving the alleged motivational gap.
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    • 2.If conventional practices can transform and extend natural sentiments without invoking moral concepts, sympathy for public interest can emerge naturalistically from social habituation.
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    • 3.The claim therefore misidentifies an explanatory challenge as a logical dilemma, conflating the genetic origin of a motive with its normative classification.
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    According to the Treatise, artificial virtues include justice, fidelity to promises, allegiance to government, and chastity. Hume devotes much discussion to justice, which he treats as a paramount and paradigmatic artificial virtue. Hume understands justice primarily as honesty with respect to property or conformity to conventions of property (T 3.2.2.28). Establishing a system of property allows us to avoid conflict and enjoy the possession and use of various goods. The social value of conventi
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