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    There must be a sentiment of sympathy or humanity common ... — Carmelics
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    There must be a sentiment of sympathy or humanity common to all human beings that grounds universal moral approval.

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    • 1.The concept of morality implies something universal rather than merely individual.
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    • 2.Moral judgments are grounded in sentiment, not reason.
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    • 3.For moral sentiment to yield universal conclusions, the relevant sentiment must itself be shared universally.
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    • 1.Hume himself acknowledges that sympathy varies in intensity with proximity, familiarity, and resemblance to the observer.
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    • 2.A sentiment that admits of degrees and partiality cannot, without correction, ground genuinely universal moral approval.
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    • 3.The 'correction' Hume invokes to achieve universality smuggles in a rationalist standard that sentiment alone cannot supply.
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    • 1.Darwin and subsequent moral psychologists demonstrate that moral emotions are adaptations shaped by local reproductive and social pressures.
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    • 2.A sentiment with evolutionarily contingent, culturally variable expression grounds inter-group moral divergence as readily as convergence.
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    • 3.Universal moral approval therefore requires a normative criterion beyond shared sentiment to adjudicate which expressions of that sentiment are authoritative.
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    David Hume (1711–76) is the first figure in this narrative who can properly be attached to the Enlightenment, though this term means very different things in Scotland, in France and in Germany. Hume held that reason cannot command or move the human will. Since morals clearly do have an influence on actions and affections, ‘it follows that they cannot be derived from reason; and that because reason alone, as we have already proved, can never have any such influence’ (Treatise III.1). For Hume an
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