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    Philosophy should focus on identifying and reinforcing the causal mechanisms that generate and support the moral sentiments.

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    • 1.The real foundations of morality are the causal mechanisms that generate and support the moral sentiments.
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    • 2.Philosophy should focus on identifying and reinforcing the real foundations of morality rather than on approaches that undermine or distract from them.
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    • 1.Moral sentiments vary systematically across cultures and history, as Mackie's error theory and Westermarck's relativism demonstrate.
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    • 2.Causal mechanisms that generate culturally variable sentiments cannot serve as universal moral foundations without smuggling in normative assumptions.
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    • 3.Philosophy's task is precisely to critically evaluate which sentiments track genuine moral truth, not to reinforce whichever sentiments causally predominate.
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    • 1.Kant argues that grounding morality in sentiment conflates empirical psychology with normative justification, committing the naturalistic fallacy.
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    • 2.The causal origin of a moral sentiment is logically independent of its normative authority, as Hume himself concedes in distinguishing 'is' from 'ought'.
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    A further important aspect of Herder’s meta-ethics has already been touched on: the complex position that he already develops in How Philosophy Can Become that sentimentalism is the correct account of the nature of morality; that cognitivism is therefore useless as an account of morality or as an approach for inculcating it, and is moreover harmful because it provokes skepticism about morality and distracts people from the real foundations of morality and from reinforcing them; and that philosop
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