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    Challenges→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.

    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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    Conventional practices(as used in ethics and social philosophy)
    Actions and behaviors that a society has agreed upon and repeated over time, like shaking hands as a greeting or saying 'please' and 'thank you.'
    Natural sentiments(as used in ethics and philosophy of emotion)
    Feelings or emotional reactions that humans are born with or develop naturally without needing to be taught, like feeling sad when someone gets hurt.
    Naturalistically(as used in philosophy of mind and metaphysics)
    In a way that comes from nature or natural processes, without needing something supernatural or outside the normal world to explain it.
    Social habituation(as used in ethics and social philosophy)
    The process of becoming used to and comfortable with certain behaviors through repeated practice in society, like how you learn table manners by watching and copying others.

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    Sympathy for public interest(as used in ethics and political philosophy)
    A genuine concern and care for what's good for the whole group or community, not just yourself.
    moral concepts(as used in ethics)
    The basic ideas and meanings we use when thinking about right and wrong—like what 'fairness' or 'harm' actually means to us.

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