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VOCABULARY OF PHILOSOPHY – APPROBATION (Moral)

APPROBATION (Moral).—The affirmation of harmony with moral law, applied to an action or an agent. It includes a judgment that an action is right, and a feeling favourable to the agent. The judgment precedes the feeling. In some cases the feeling predominates; in others the judgment is more prominent. The term applies more properly to the moral agent, whether self or another. It is a judgment of commendation on account of well-doing (Fleming’s Manual of Moral Philosophy, p. 102; Reid, Active Powers, essay V. ch. VII.; Calderwood’s Handbook of Moral Philosophy, p. 28).
 
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