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    It is not the case that There must be a sentiment of sympathy or humanity common to all human beings that grounds universal moral approval.

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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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    • 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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