The Enlightenment Of Sympathy

Author : Michael L. Frazer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-08-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199780211

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The Enlightenment of Sympathy by Michael L. Frazer Pdf

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.

Author : Michael L. Frazer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Emotions (Philosophy)
ISBN : OCLC:672242339

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The Enlightenment of Sympathy by Michael L. Frazer Pdf

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.

Author : Michael L. Frazer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Emotions (Philosophy)
ISBN : OCLC:871748641

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The Enlightenment of Sympathy by Michael L. Frazer Pdf

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

Author : Jonathan Lamb
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317315452

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The Evolution of Sympathy in the Long Eighteenth Century by Jonathan Lamb Pdf

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.

Author : Roman Alexander Barton
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110625318

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The Making of the Sympathetic Imagination by Roman Alexander Barton Pdf

How is it that we feel with fictional characters and so approve or disapprove of their actions? For many British Enlightenment thinkers writing at a time when sympathy was the pivot of ethics as well as poetics, this question was crucial. Asserting that the notion of the sympathetic imagination prominent in Romantic criticism and poetry originates in Moral Sentimentalism, this study traces the emergence of what became a key concept of intersubjectivity. It shows how, contrary to earlier traditions, Francis Hutcheson and his disciples successively established the imagination rather than reason as the pivotal faculty through which sympathy is rendered morally effective. Writing at the interface of ethics and poetics, Adam Smith, Lord Kames and others explored the sympathetic imagination as a means of both explaining emotional reader response and discovering moral distinctions. As a result, the sentimental novel became the sight of ethical controversy. Arguing against the dominant view of research which claims that the novel of sensibility is mostly uncritically sentimental, the book demonstrates that it is precisely in this genre that the sympathetic imagination is sceptically assessed in terms of its literary and moral potential.

Author : Howard Burton
Publisher : Open Agenda Publishing
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781771701341

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The Power of Sympathy: Politics and Moral Sentimentalism by Howard Burton Pdf

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.

Author : Michael L. Frazer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:84675154

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The Enlightenment of Sympathy by Michael L. Frazer Pdf

Author : I. Csengei
Publisher : Springer
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230359178

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Sympathy, Sensibility and the Literature of Feeling in the Eighteenth Century by I. Csengei Pdf

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.

Author : Eva Piirimäe,Liina Lukas,Johannes Schmidt
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004426870

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Herder on Empathy and Sympathy by Eva Piirimäe,Liina Lukas,Johannes Schmidt Pdf

An exploration of the meaning and role of the concepts of empathy and sympathy in Herder’s thought, showing that the two concepts permeate his entire philosophy.

Author : Ritchie Robertson
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 1008 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780241004838

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The Enlightenment by Ritchie Robertson Pdf

'The best single-volume study of the Enlightenment that we have' Literary Review The Enlightenment is one of the formative periods of Western history, yet more than 300 years after it began, it remains controversial. It is often seen as the fountainhead of modern values such as human rights, religious toleration, freedom of thought, scientific thought as an exemplary form of reasoning, and rationality and evidence-based argument. Others accuse the Enlightenment of putting forward a scientific rationality which ignores the complexity and variety of human beings, propagates shallow atheism, and aims to subjugate nature to so-called technical progress. Answering the question 'what is Enlightenment?' Kant famously urged men and women above all to 'have the courage to use your own understanding'. Robertson shows how the thinkers of the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a rounded understanding of humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility. His book goes behind the controversies about the Enlightenment to return to its original texts and to show that above all it sought to increase human happiness in this world by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument. His book overturns many received opinions - for example, that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion (though it did challenge the authority traditionally assumed by the Churches). It is a master-class in 'big picture' history, about one of the foundational epochs of modern times.

Author : Sophie de Grouchy
Publisher : Oxford New Histories of Philos
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190637088

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Sophie de Grouchy's Letters on Sympathy by Sophie de Grouchy Pdf

Adam Smith, in his The Theory of Moral Sentiments, largely left his readers to develop his argument's full implications. Many philosophers famously did so, including Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Paine, and John Millar, among others, but less known are Sophie de Grouchy's own contributions, presented here alone in translation. Grouchy (1764-1822) published her Letters on Sympathy in 1798 together with her French translation of The Theory of Moral Sentiments. While Grouchy's Letters mainly engage critically with Smith's philosophical analysis of sympathy, they offer valuable perspectives and original thoughts about the relationship of emotional and moral development to legal, economic, and political reform. In particular, Grouchy sought to understand how the mechanisms of sympathy could help the development of new social and political institutions after the revolution. Her Letters further contain profound reflections on the dangers of demagoguery, the nature of tragedy, and the roles of love and friendship. Though ostensibly a commentary on Smith, the Letters stand in their own right as significant and original contributions to political philosophy. This new translation by Sandrine Bergès of a text by a forgotten female philosopher illuminates new inroads to Enlightenment and feminist thought and reveals insights that were far ahead of their time. The volume includes a critical introduction, explanatory notes, and a glossary of terms to provide critical and historical analysis for the novice reader.

Author : David T. Gies,Cynthia Wall
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-02-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813940762

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The Eighteenth Centuries by David T. Gies,Cynthia Wall Pdf

Today, when "globalization" is a buzzword invoked in nearly every realm, we turn back to the eighteenth century and witness the inherent globalization of its desires and, at times, its accomplishments. During the chronological eighteenth century, learning and knowledge were intimately connected across disciplinary and geographical boundaries, yet the connections themselves are largely unstudied. In The Eighteenth Centuries, twenty-two scholars across disciplines address the idea of plural Enlightenments and a global eighteenth century, transcending the demarcations that long limited our grasp of the period’s breadth and depth. Engaging concepts that span divisions of chronology and continent, these essays address topics ranging from mechanist biology, painted geographies, and revolutionary opera to Americanization, theatrical subversion of marriage, and plantation architecture. Weaving together many disparate threads of the historical tapestry we call the Enlightenment, this volume illuminates our understanding of the interconnectedness of the eighteenth centuries.

Author : Jacqueline Taylor
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191045806

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Reflecting Subjects by Jacqueline Taylor Pdf

Jacqueline Taylor offers an original reconstruction of Hume's social theory, which examines the passions and imagination in relation to institutions such as government and the economy. Reflecting Subjects begins with a close examination of Hume's use of an experimental method to explain the origin, nature and effects of pride, an indirect passion that reflects a person's sense of self-worth in virtue of her valuable qualities, for example, her character or wealth. In explaining the origin of pride in terms of efficient causes, Hume displaces the traditional appeal to final causes, and is positioned to give an account of the significance for us of the passions in terms of a social theory. Subsequent chapters reconstruct this social theory, looking in particular at how the principle of sympathy functions to transmit cultural meanings and values, before examining Hume's account of social power—especially with regard to rank and sex. Turning to Hume's system of ethics, Taylor argues for the importance of Hume's more sophisticated moral philosophy in his Enquiry concerning the Principles of Morals, since it emphasizes certain virtues of good moral evaluation. She demonstrates that the principle of humanity stands as the central concept of Hume's Enlightenment philosophy.

Author : Ryan Patrick Hanley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107105225

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Love's Enlightenment by Ryan Patrick Hanley Pdf

This book examines the transformation of the traditional understanding of love by four key Enlightenment thinkers - Hume, Adam Smith, Rousseau and Kant.

Author : Francis D. Cogliano
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351894258

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The Atlantic Enlightenment by Francis D. Cogliano Pdf

Transatlantic studies, especially during the enlightenment period, is of increasing critical interest amongst scholars. But was there an Atlantic Enlightenment? This interdisciplinary collection harnesses the work of some of the most prominent figures in the fields of literature; intellectual, cultural, and social history; geography; and political science to examine the emergence of the Atlantic as one of the key conceptual paradigms of eighteenth century studies. In this spirit, the contributors offer new insights into the conditions that generated a major transatlantic genre of writing; addressing questions of race, political economy, and the transmission of Enlightenment ideas in literary, political, historical, and religious contexts. Whether examining John Witherspoon's evolution from Calvinist theologian to Revolutionary theorist, or Adam Smith's reception in the antebellum United States, the essays remind us that the transatlantic traffic in ideas moved from west to east, from east to west, and in patterns that both complicate and enrich what we thought we knew about the vectors of transmission in this pivotal period.