  Here again, Cockburn sought to distance herself from Hutcheson’s moral sense theory. For Cockburn, moral sense was an important factor in accounting for moral judgments, but she insisted on its subordination to reason as a guide in moral judgment. She holds this moral sense account in concert with her rationalistic fitness view. She presents her moral sense theory within the context of a general moral fitness theory, suggesting that Clarkean moral fitness theory could easily accommodate such an account. In this way, Cockburn sees herself as offering an account of moral motivation not entirely obvious in Clarke’s theory, but tempering the suggestion of blind instinct she sees in Hutcheson’s moral sense view. Cockburn’s morality sought to establish a foundation for morality in human nature that sufficiently accounted for the type of natural and seemingly immediate human moral sensibility that Burnet believed was not accounted for by Locke and that Clarke’s critics saw as lacking in his fitness view.