My related but different thoughts here. In particular, I don’t agree that emotions like moral outrage and approval are impersonal, though I agree that we often justify those emotions using impersonal language and beliefs.
I didn’t say that moral outrage and approval are impersonal. Obviously nothing that a person does can truly be “impersonal”. But it may be an attempt at impersonality.
The attempt itself provides a direction that significantly differentiates between moral preferences and non-moral preferences.
I didn’t mean some idealized humanly-unrealizable notion of impersonality, I meant the thing we ordinarily use “impersonal” to mean when talking about what humans do.
My related but different thoughts here. In particular, I don’t agree that emotions like moral outrage and approval are impersonal, though I agree that we often justify those emotions using impersonal language and beliefs.
I didn’t say that moral outrage and approval are impersonal. Obviously nothing that a person does can truly be “impersonal”. But it may be an attempt at impersonality.
The attempt itself provides a direction that significantly differentiates between moral preferences and non-moral preferences.
I didn’t mean some idealized humanly-unrealizable notion of impersonality, I meant the thing we ordinarily use “impersonal” to mean when talking about what humans do.