PHIL 251 Lecture 7: Lecture 7
1 Feb 2017
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Moral sentiment: a highly structured, moral feeling. Moral emotion is not like other kinds of feelings. Reaction to other states that are occurring. Reaction to feelings that a person may be experiencing. The second order reaction is the reaction to those feelings. Addresses degree of other forms of emotions in a reflective way. Introduces the form of reason to moral judgment. Role is to inform this second order reaction. Suggests that if people are informed and impartial they are reacting from the same general point of view. Lead to the idea of the impartial spectator: moral sentiment is not sympatric identification (an immediate reaction) Impartial spectator: an impartial point of view from which a person makes moral judgments. Able to consider the interest of everyone who would be affected by something: used this definition to define moral objectivity. Some judgments are objectively correct and some are not.
