 However, there are two further points worth making here, as we come to understand Hutcheson’s moral ontology. First, even if it were the case that Hutcheson accepted a kind of constitutive sentimentalism, Hutcheson nevertheless believes that the property of goodness could not have been otherwise. This is for two reasons. First, Hutcheson believes that our capacity for approbation, and our capacity to take pleasure in particular actions given the moral sense is firmly rooted in the universal principles of human nature: