Moral Phenomenology in Hutcheson and Hume.

The author focuses on moral phenomenology, defined as a study of morality as experienced in the first-person. Moral phenomenology attempts to investigate the mental introspection involved in deciding whether or not to perform an act and in determining whether a person is virtuous. The author points out that philosophers commonly claim their moral theories are superior to others' theories because they better account for the human experience of moral judgment. He critiques the failure of phenomenological arguments of Francis Hutcheson and David Hume as illustrative of the limitations of moral phenomenology among rival theories of morality.