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Moral judgment must fundamentally consist of sentiments — Carmelics

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Moral judgment must fundamentally consist of sentiments

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1.Moral judgment of its very nature motivates action
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2.Reason does not motivate action; only sentiments motivate action
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1.Hume's own is-ought gap implies sentiments are contingent psychological states that cannot ground normative authority.
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2.A moral judgment carries genuine prescriptive force only if grounded in something more than variable affective responses.
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3.If sentiments merely describe what agents feel rather than what they ought to do, sentiment-based accounts conflate moral psychology with moral epistemology.
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1.Kant demonstrated that pure practical reason generates the categorical imperative independently of inclination or sentiment.
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2.If reason alone can bind the will through recognition of universal law, sentiment is not necessary for moral motivation.
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Herder took over this position from his teacher, the pre-critical Kant, who had similarly espoused a form of sentimentalism in Dreams of a Spirit Seer (1766). Via Kant it can ultimately be traced back to the British sentimentalist tradition, especially Hume, whose main argument for it Herder seems to echo at points in This Too a Philosophy of History: moral judgment of its very nature motivates; but reason does not motivate, only sentiments do that; therefore moral judgment must fundamentally co

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