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    The sentiment of approbation is increased when judging ob... — Carmelics
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    The sentiment of approbation is increased when judging objects from the general point of view

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    • 1.The general point of view takes notice of pleasure that the object is fitted to bring to other people
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    • 2.The idea of others' benefit generates sympathetic pleasure
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    • 3.Sympathetic pleasure increases the sentiment of approbation
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    • 1.Sympathy in Hume's system is variable and unstable, fluctuating with proximity and resemblance to the observed party.
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    • 2.An unstable mechanism cannot reliably increase approbation across different judges, undermining the claim's universality.
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    • 3.Hume himself acknowledges in the Treatise that uncorrected sympathy produces divergent, not convergent, moral sentiments.
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    • 1.Adopting the general point of view requires suppressing personal sentiment, which diminishes rather than amplifies affective response.
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    • 2.Kant's aesthetic theory demonstrates that genuine approbation requires disinterested judgment, where sympathetic augmentation introduces partiality.
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    Hume also invokes the operation of a sympathetic sentiment. Since sympathy plays an important role in his moral theory (T, 577; EPM, 225), he must include it in his aesthetic theory if he is to sustain the close ties he posits between morals and aesthetics. The general point of view takes notice of pleasure that the object is fitted to bring to other people. The idea of their benefit generates sympathetic pleasure, increasing the sentiment of approbation (T, 364–65).
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