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    It is not the case that The sentiment of approbation is increased when judging objects from the general point of view

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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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    Reason for 2 of 2
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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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    • 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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