How we reach a 'moral' judgement

 We reach a moral judgment by feeling approval or disapproval upon contemplating someone’s trait in a disinterested way from the common point of view. 

So moral approval is a favorable sentiment in the observer elicited by the observed person’s disposition to have certain motivating sentiments. 

Thus moral approval is a sentiment that is directed toward sentiments, or the dispositions to have them.

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