Introduction to Ethics Including a Critical Survey of Moral Systems
Introduction to Ethics Including a Critical Survey of Moral Systems
Thodore Jouffroy
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Although Hutcheson declares that they are not of the same low and gross nature with these external senses, yet he subjects them to the same laws, and clothes them with the same attributes. Thus the moral sense is a faculty of the sensibility ; it is affected directly by the moral quality of acts, SYSTEM OF THE MORAL SENSE. 187 as the taste is by flavors ; it is accompanied also by agreeable and disagreeable sensations, and by desire or repugnance though Hutcheson does endeavor to disguise this ...latter fact under the names of approba- tion or disapprobation; and, finally, the moral sense, like all the other senses, is capable of being improved. Hutcheson ascribes, however, to the moral sense, the most important offices. It is destined, as he thinks, to govern all the faculties of our nature. Hutcheson would have done much to establish his system, if he had shown the origin of this authority of the moral sense; but, unfortunately, his whole proof reduces itself to saying that we have a direct consciousness of it.
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