There has recently been a good deal of interest in moral
sentimentalism, but most of that interest has been exclusively
either in metaethical questions about the meaning of moral terms or
in normative issues about benevolence and/or caring and their place
in morality. In Moral Sentimentalism Michael Slote attempts to deal
with both sorts of issues and to do so, primarily, in terms of the
notion or phenomenon of empathy. Hume sought to do something like
this over two centuries ago, though he didn't have the term
"empathy" and used "sympathy" instead; and in effect Slote is
seeking to give moral sentimentalism a "second wind" in and for
contemporary circumstances. By relying systematically on empathy in
its account of normative morality and in what it has to say about
the meaning of moral vocabulary, Moral Sentimentalism offers a
unified overall ethical picture that can then be tested against
ethical rationalism. Rationalism has recently dominated the scene
in ethics, but by showing how sentimentalism can make coherent and
intuitive sense of such preferred rationalist notions as autonomy,
respect, and justice--and by showing how a sentimentalism based in
empathy can deal with ethically significant aspects of the moral
life that rationalism tends to ignore or skimp on--Slote hopes a
wider and more active debate between rationalism and sentimentalism
can be set in motion. There are signs that sentimentalist modes of
thought are gaining new footholds on the way ethics is done, and
this new book is very hopeful about these possibilities.
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