ExtractSmith’s Full-Blown Account of Moral Judgment and Its Impact on Moral Action In the previous chapter, we saw Smith answer the psychological foundation of moral judgment question as follows: the pleasure we take in observing mutual sympathy between our own and another’s sentiments constitutes approval, and the pain we take in observing the absence of mutual sympathy between our own and another’s sentiments constitutes disapproval. But identifying the psychological foundation of moral judgment is not necessarily the same thing as providing a full-blown account of moral judgment. To provide such an account, Smith has at least three more tasks to complete. First, he must explain how we are capable of making moral judgments that do not line up with how we actually feel. Second, he must explain the fact that there is significant agreement within groups of people regarding what is proper or improper and meritorious or demeritorious, even though...