 Indeed, it is not immediately clear from the Inquiry how we are to read Hutcheson on this matter. As already quoted, he holds that the moral sense is the source of the ideas of moral good and bad (Inquiry 86). But this would appear to be neutral concerning whether Hutcheson is a constitutive or epistemic sentimentalist. However, the passage from the Essay is less ambiguous. As noted, he holds that objects, actions, and so on “obtain the name Good” insofar as they are causes of the relevant perceptions (Essay, 15). And hence this would appear to be a constitutive sentimentalism: moral properties just are those properties that cause a particular sentimental reaction. On this reading (or so it would seem), if our psychology were different, then it may be that those things that “procure Approbation” would be substantially different than what they are now. This consequence was a key contemporary criticism of Hutcheson. John Balguy, for instance, writes 