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    Moral agents routinely act against sympathy (punishing lo... — Carmelics
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    Challenges→Moral motivation requires affective states like sympathy or benevolence that operate independently of rational deliberation.

    Moral agents routinely act against sympathy (punishing loved ones, supporting unpopular justice) via reasoned principles, showing affect can be overridden by rational deliberation.

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    Key Terms

    Affect(as the emotional experience being reproduced or transmitted)
    The technical term for feelings, emotions, or emotional states—basically, what someone is feeling at any given moment.
    Moral agents(as used in ethics)
    People or entities capable of understanding right and wrong, making choices based on moral principles, and being held responsible for their actions.
    Rational deliberation(how the general will is discovered)
    Careful, logical thinking and discussion where people reason through a problem step-by-step rather than acting on emotion or instinct.
    Reasoned principles(as used in ethics)
    Rules or guidelines for behavior that you follow because you've thought them through logically, not just because of how you feel.
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    (Hume's moral psychology)
    A mechanism by which we enter into the feelings of others, enabled by resemblance between persons, and modulated in strength by associative relations such as resemblance, contiguity, and causation

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