caa a22 4500 606237968 CHVBK 20210128101256.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10677-015-9601-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10677-015-9601-9 McGregor Rafe Department of Philosophy, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, York, UK aut Making Sense of Moral Perception [Elektronische Daten] [Rafe McGregor] The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that Francis Hutcheson's moral sense theory offers a satisfactory account of moral perception. I introduce Hutcheson's work in §1 and indicate why the existence of a sixth sense is not implausible. I provide a summary of Robert Cowan and Robert Audi's respective theories of evaluative perception in §2, identifying three problematic objections: the Directness Objection to Cowan's ethical perception and the aesthetic and perceptual model objections to Audi's moral perception. §3 examines Hutcheson's moral sense theory, focusing on his discussion of benevolence, the desire for the happiness of others. I deal with the unresolved issues in Hutcheson's account by recourse to Charles Darwin's evolutionary perspective on the moral sense in §4, arguing for the moral sense as the second-order faculty for judging benevolence. I return, in §5, to the objections, showing that moral sense theory solves all three problems and therefore offers a satisfactory account of moral perception. Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht, 2015 Charles Darwin nationallicence Francis Hutcheson nationallicence Moral perception nationallicence Moral sense theory nationallicence Sensory modalities nationallicence Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/4(2015-08-01), 745-758 1386-2820 18:4<745 2015 18 10677 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9601-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10677-015-9601-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- McGregor Rafe Department of Philosophy, University of York, Heslington, YO10 5DD, York, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice Springer Netherlands 18/4(2015-08-01), 745-758 1386-2820 18:4<745 2015 18 10677