It is contended, that the human mind possesses an intuition or instinct, whereby we feel or discern at once the right from the wrong; a view termed the doctrine of the Moral Sense, or Moral Sentiment.
Thirdly, Moral Sentiment is said to be radically different in its nature from any other fact or phenomenon of the mind.
In favour of the simple and intuitive character of Moral Sentiment, it is argued:-- First, That our judgments of right and wrong are immediate and instantaneous.
The pious Jews used to stone every woman to death who was taken in adultery--in our day, such a deed of blood would be revolting to moral sentiment, and would claim tears from the eyes of cultivated people.
See here, Gerlach, moral sentiment is a very elastic sort of thing.
Yet it was an outrage to moral sentiment," opposed Seraphin.
In Mill this is done mainly by the assertion of the social nature of man, in Grote by showing how a moral sentiment may be arrived at by the combined action of sympathy and association.
And probably some degree of such emotion, commonly distinguished as 'moral sentiment,' ordinarily accompanies moral judgments on real cases.
No communication from heaven could have moral weight, to a heart previously destitute of moral sentiment, or unbelieving in the morality of God.
If he had been uttering a moral sentiment he could not have been externally more calm or inwardly less agitated.
There is, of course, a process of constant Interaction going on between the two elements in the constitution of moral sentiment which I have been attempting to describe.
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