The Enlightenment of Sympathy
Title | The Enlightenment of Sympathy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Frazer |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 247 |
Release | 2010-08-18 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0199780218 |
The Enlightenment of Sympathy reclaims the sentimentalist theory of reflective autonomy as a resource for enriching social science, normative theory, and political practice today. The sentimentalist description of the reflective process is more empirically accurate than the competing rationalist description, and can guide scientists investigating the processes by which the mind formulates moral and political principles. Yet the theory is much more than merely descriptive, and can also contribute to the philosophical project of finding principles--including principles of justice--that wield genuine normative authority. Enlightenment sentimentalism demonstrates that emotion is necessarily central to our civic life, and shows how our reflective sentiments can counterbalance the unreflective feelings that might otherwise lead our political principles astray.
The Enlightenment of Sympathy
Title | The Enlightenment of Sympathy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Frazer |
Publisher | |
Pages | 237 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Emotions (Philosophy) |
ISBN |
Rationalists, the most famous of whom was Kant, posited a mind that was hierarchically arranged, with reason sitting atop of the passions. Yet as Michael Frazer argues, there were in fact two enlightenments - the sentimentalist enlightenment and the rationalist one - and this book reclaims the importance of the former.--Résumé de l'éditeur.
The Enlightenment of Sympathy
Title | The Enlightenment of Sympathy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Frazer |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Emotions (Philosophy) |
ISBN |
Rationalists, the most famous of whom was Kant, posited a mind that was hierarchically arranged, with reason sitting atop of the passions. Yet as Michael Frazer argues, there were in fact two enlightenments - the sentimentalist enlightenment and the rationalist one - and this book reclaims the importance of the former
The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century
Title | The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Lamb |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 190 |
Release | 2015-10-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1317315464 |
This work represents a concise history of sympathy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, considering the phenomenon of shared feeling from five related angles: charity, the market, global exploration, theatre, and torture.
The Enlightenment of Sympathy
Title | The Enlightenment of Sympathy PDF eBook |
Author | Michael L. Frazer |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | |
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Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century
Title | Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century PDF eBook |
Author | I. Csengei |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2011-12-13 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0230359175 |
What makes it possible for self-interest, cruelty and violence to become part of the benevolent, compassionate ideology of eighteenth-century sensibility? This book explores forms of emotional response, including sympathy, tears, swoons and melancholia through a range of eighteenth-century literary, philosophical and scientific texts.
The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism
Title | The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism PDF eBook |
Author | Howard Burton |
Publisher | Open Agenda Publishing |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2021-03-14 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 177170134X |
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Michael Frazer, Senior Lecturer in Political and Social Theory at the University of East Anglia. After a detailed discussion of Prof. Frazer’s upbringing and intellectual journey, the conversation explores the core ideas behind the sentimentalist theory as outlined in Prof. Frazer’s book called The Enlightenment of Sympathy. This carefully-edited book includes an introduction, More Than Reasonable, and questions for discussion at the end of each chapter: I. New York Origins - A very Woody Allen beginning II. Sympathy - And how to use it III. Different Tracks - Hume, Smith and Herder IV. Disciplinary Boundaries - Political philosophy as Kurdistan V. Bringing It Home - Moral sentiments in the real world About Ideas Roadshow Conversations: This book is part of an expanding series of 100+ Ideas Roadshow conversations, each one presenting a wealth of candid insights from a leading expert through a focused yet informal setting to give non-specialists a uniquely accessible window into frontline research and scholarship that wouldn't otherwise be encountered through standard lectures and textbooks.