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Moral Sentiment
Philosophy
Morality to human sentiment is a unique kind of feeling. It comes about through a kind of perspective-taking that we encounter, via a practice of sympathetic imagination, sentiments belonging to individuals that have been affected by a given action or other evaluation objects.
There are two main claims in which Hume's account of moral sentiments rest upon. Firstly, it holds that the source of our normative standards should be found within obvious human concerns. Morality has been described as a practical fact, social coordination mechanism that is to make our lives improve, and the surrounding rules with it reflect what matters to us. Secondly, the account claim that human identifies common concerns; hence conclude it to moral norms, using reflective feeling exercise that develops on the sympathetic communication of sentiments, (David Fate, 1990). However, the whole concept does not carry normative weight. Strictly personal feelings remaining is capable of motivating human actions but they fail to trigger obligations or clarify the right and wrong concept
Therefore, moral sentiments are indeed a unique feeling. Its entire standpoint depends on the inter-subjective communication of feeling that they naturally approaches us in form...
We tend to be constituted that we can resonate with pleasures and pains of others. Yet intervening variables can obstruct this resonance, especially through our personal attachment as well as our prejudices, though it is usually a pervasive and common part of human experience.
Additionally, since human beings are interdependent naturally, there is need for coordination of our expectation and actions with those of the rest of people. Social coordination may not be possible if our entire judgments have been restricted to a narrowly particularistic perspective; there is need for a general standard of right and wrong. Hume argues this explaining that in case we come up with our judgments towards an individual, just based on their characters to our own benefit, or favor of our friends, then we realize numerous contradictions to human sentiments within the conversation and society, this doubt from the incessant definitely alter our circumstances, thereby looking for other standard of advantage and disadvantage, that may fail to bring in greater variation, (Frank DeVita, 2013). Nevertheless, in case communication of sentiments is made possible by empathy, independence facts offer a…
References
David Fate "Online Guide to Ethics and Moral Philosophy" (1990). Retrieved April 25, 2013. http://caae.phil.cmu.edu/cavalier/80130/part1/sect4/texts/Norton.html
Frank DeVita "Hume's Theory of Moral Sentiments as a Phenomenological Account of Morality" (2012). Retrieved April 25, 2013. http://frankdevita.wordpress.com/2012/08/06/humes-theory-of-moral-sentiments/
Krause, Sharon, "Moral Sentiment and the Politics of Human Rights," The Art of Theory, Jason Swadley (ed.), October 2010, Retrieved April 25, 2013. http://www.artoftheory.com/moral-sentiment-and-the-politics-of-human-rights-sharon-krause
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