Everyone, he argued, is born "with a natural moral sense," a concept
originally developed by the philosophers of the Scottish
Enlightenment, principally by Adam Smith and Francis Hutcheson, and
then picked up by prominent Americans such as Thomas Jefferson and
James Madison. The moral sense consists of four virtues—sympathy,
fairness, self-control, and duty—that individuals absorb through
family relations and community life. As
---SPSmith
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