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    It is not the case that Moral theories prior to Kant went astray

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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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    • 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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