Using Benevolent Affections to Learn Our Duty*

Reid on Moral Sentimentalism

“… See Cuneo (2006, 2008,Roeser (2009),Broadie (2010),Lehrer (2010),Kroeker (2011Kroeker ( , 2018,Folescu (2018). Commentators agree that, for Reid, moral judgment is not sentimental in nature, but is nevertheless accompanied by feelings or affections as a matter of natural necessity: we are constituted in such a way that, whenever we form moral judgments, we also form appropriate affective states in an immediate and unreflective manner.…”