ABSTRACT

I In chapter II I argued that to say that someone’s altruistic emotions were capricious was to give a moral criticism of that person, to imply that his emotional response was insufficient or inadequate. I thereby argued that a person’s characteristic or particular emotional reactions (or lacks thereof) reflect on him morally. In chapter VIII tried to bring out some of what constitutes the moral significance of our altruistic emotions, showing that they convey goods of human concern. I have therefore presumed that our altruistic emotions reflect on us morally. For this is necessary if one is to say that altruistic emotions have moral value.