The “Moral Point of View” in Tymieniecka’s the Moral Sense

Abstract

Professor Tymieniecka’s essay on The Moral Sense is a thought-provoking essay. The general thesis of the work is relatively easy to identify and to state: the source of moral meaningfulness rests neither in an intellectual intuition nor an affective perception of objectively given moral values but directly in a sui generis experience of moral valuation. She writes on page 23, “Indeed, the moral valuation introduces a “moral point of view” into the interpretation of life-events, actions, and their interrelations. This moral point of view consists precisely in approaching an interpretation of the life-significance of personal feelings, qualities of judgment and actions, from the standpoint of benevolence.”¹