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    Morality is the proper science and business of mankind in general

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    • 1.Morality is, like mathematics, a human science and properly-speaking knowledge
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    • 2.Humans are fitted with the capacity for discerning their moral duty
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    • 3.When beings are fitted with a capacity suited to a task, that task is what they ought to pursue
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    • 1.Hume demonstrated that moral judgments are grounded in sentiment and passion, not reason or demonstrable science.
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    • 2.If morality derives from affective responses rather than rational demonstration, it cannot be a 'science' in Locke's mathematical sense.
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    • 3.A capacity for moral feeling distributed across humanity does not entail that systematic moral knowledge is universally achievable or obligatory.
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    • 1.Nietzsche argued that the assignment of a single 'proper business' to all mankind suppresses legitimate human diversity and hierarchical excellence.
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    • 2.The naturalistic inference from 'fitted with a capacity' to 'ought to pursue that task' conflates descriptive endowment with normative obligation, committing a form of the is-ought fallacy Hume identified.
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    Locke, in fact, adds something of a meta-moral dimension to this epistemological point by suggesting that as rational beings it is our “proper Imployment” to contemplate morality. In Book IV of the Essay, where Locke concludes that morality is, like mathematics, a human science (and, properly-speaking, knowledge), Locke draws a teleological lesson—since we are clearly fitted with the capacity for discerning our moral duty, then that is what we ought to do: “I think I may conclude, that Morality
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