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    Moral theories prior to Kant went astray — Carmelics
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    Moral theories prior to Kant went astray

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    • 1.Pre-Kantian moral theories portrayed fundamental moral principles as appealing to the existing interests of those bound by them
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    • 2.Moral principles must not appeal to existing interests because no interest is necessarily universal
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    • 1.Hutcheson and Hume ground moral judgment in a corrected, impartial spectator sentiment shared universally across human nature.
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    • 2.A moral foundation in universal human sentiment is not equivalent to appealing to the parochial existing interests of particular agents.
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    • 3.Therefore, P1 mischaracterizes sentimentalist theories by conflating universal affective capacities with contingent personal interests.
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    • 1.Aristotelian eudaimonism grounds moral principles in human nature's telos, not contingent individual interests, achieving genuine universality.
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    • 2.If a theory appeals to interests constitutive of human flourishing as such, P2's objection that no interest is necessarily universal does not apply.
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    Although most of Kant’s readers understand the property of autonomy as being a property of rational wills, some, such as Thomas E. Hill, have held that Kant’s central idea is that of autonomy is a property, not primarily of wills, but of principles. The core idea is that Kant believed that all moral theories prior to his own went astray because they portrayed fundamental moral principles as appealing to the existing interests of those bound by them. By contrast, in Kant’s view moral principles m
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