Allen W. Wood, Kantian Ethics (2008), Ch. 2. Moral Worth
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Kant in fact seems to have begun his reflections on moral theory as an adherent of Francis Hutcheson’s moral sense theory. Even after abandoning it, he persists in maintaining the importance of “moral feeling” and tries consistently to make a place for it within his moral psychology.

— Allen W. Wood on Francis Hutcheson (philosopher)

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About Allen W. Wood

Allen William Wood (born October 26, 1942) is an American philosopher specialising in the work of Immanuel Kant and German Idealism, with particular interests in ethics and social philosophy.