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    It is not the case that Hume's claim that sympathy with public interest is the source of moral approbation for justice does not resolve the problem of the natural motive for justice.

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    • 1.Hume requires that the motive for morally good actions be non-moral and natural.
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    • 2.Sympathy with the public interest does not appear to be non-moral.
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    • 3.Sympathy with the public interest does not appear to be inherent in human nature.
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    • 1.Hume's own taxonomy in the Treatise distinguishes sympathy as a psychological mechanism of transmission, not a moral sentiment, making it genuinely pre-moral.
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    • 2.Sympathy with public interest operates through contagion of feeling from observed social utility, a causal-naturalistic process requiring no prior moral judgment.
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    • 3.A motive grounded in transmitted affect rather than duty or obligation satisfies Hume's requirement that the natural motive precede and ground moral approbation.
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    • 1.Hume's account in the Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Morals reframes justice as sustained by socialized sentiments refined through convention, not raw instinct.
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    • 2.Annette Baier's reading of Hume establishes that second-nature dispositions cultivated through social habituation count as genuinely natural for Hume's purposes.
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    • 3.If cultivated sympathy constitutes a legitimate natural motive on Baier's interpretation, then the objection that sympathy with public interest is non-natural misreads Hume's expanded conception of human nature.
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