One of the important events in George Washington's life is said to be that as a 16-year-old student he copied into his notebook all110 Rules of Civility. Those rules were commonly known and circulated during Washington's time. (See the sidebar for a sampling of those rules.) You might...
Core moral judgment thus implicates what I will call “Sentimental Rules,” rules prohibiting actions that are independently likely to elicit strong negative affect. The set of rules or normative theory prohibits actions of a certain type, and actions of that type generate strong affective response....