It makes me wonder what the world would be like if Bishop Joseph Butler was more popular among rationalists, and generally more well known as an Enlightenment t

It makes me wonder what the world would be like if Bishop Joseph Butler was more popular among rationalists, and generally more well known as an Enlightenment thinker. It's been a while so excuse my spotty memory, but in summary his work challenged prevailing Enlightenment ideas about self-interest and centered human sentiment in understanding ethics. It goes to show you can be a rationalist and still talk about human morality with words like compassion and resentment. I understand that the rationalist project has been to bypass the emotional and get to some kind of cold hard truth of right and wrong, but I've long suspected that this is impossible.