ABSTRACT
The central claim of Hume’s sentimentalism is that moral judgments arise when our natural sympathetic reactions are modified by reason and imagination, as we thereby approach the impartial ‘general and steady point of view.’ Moral judgments can be true, since they are grounded in facts about the character traits manifested in the actions we observe or consider, and about the distinct kind of pleasure (or pain) caused by such traits and actions when considered from this general point of view.
