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As one of founders of moral sentimentalism, Adam Smith gives an account of moral approval/disapproval, which is roughly expecting an empathy-based account of morality. Specifically, according to Smith, if find people acting pretty similarly to the way that we would act, then we approve of them, and otherwise we disapprove of them. This account of moral approval/disapproval has some obvious flaws which should be recognized and modified. 

Answer the following questions in your paper: (1) What is moral sentimentalism? In what sense the theory is different from so-called rationalist theory of morality? (Consider the way they give an account of moral judgments.) (2) Smith's explanatory model of moral approval/disapproval is roughly considered to be empathy-based account but not exactly so. Explain why, by giving a clear account of what empathy is. (3) Smith's account is limited because of some obvious flaws. What are they? And does Slote's (new) model of moral approval/disapproval evade such problems? 

*You can find necessary information in Slote's "Moral Sentimentalism", Ethical Theory and Moral Practice, Vol. 7, No1 (Mar., 2004), pp. 3-14