Full Idea
The emotions of sympathy, compassion and love are no guarantee of right action or acting well.
Gist of Idea
The emotions of sympathy, compassion and love are no guarantee of right action or acting well
Source
Rosalind Hursthouse (On Virtue Ethics [1999], Ch.4)
Book Reference
Hursthouse,Rosalind: 'On Virtue Ethics' [OUP 2001], p.102
A Reaction
This is a critique of Hume, and of utlitarianism. It pushes us either to the concept of duty, or the concept of virtue (independent of right feeling).