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Moral Sentiments, Social Exclusion, Aesthetic Education

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 April 2001

Michael McGhee
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Abstract

There is a dichotomy in the Humean thought that morality is more properly felt than judged of. The idea of a moral sensibility with an epistemic and rational content is grounded in the experience of the state of nature, and a distinction made between a defensive and a constructive morality, constituted by a set of motivations, against the law of the strongest, and protective of the relationships of education and creative work, exclusion from which undermines the conditions for a constructive morality. Aesthetic education is a means of overcoming the sectarianism of defensive morality.

Type
Research Article
Information
Philosophy , Volume 74 , Issue 1 , January 1999 , pp. 85 - 103
Copyright
© The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1999

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