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    It is not the case that Philosophy should focus on identifying and reinforcing the causal mechanisms that generate and support the moral sentiments.

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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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    • 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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