The Nature Of Sympathy

Author : Max Scheler
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781351478861

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The Nature of Sympathy by Max Scheler Pdf

The Nature of Sympathy explores, at different levels, the social emotions of fellow-feeling, the sense of identity, love and hatred, and traces their relationship to one another and to the values with which they are associated. Scheler criticizes other writers, from Adam Smith to Freud, who have argued that the sympathetic emotions derive from self-interested feelings or instincts. He reviews the evaluations of love and sympathy current in different historical periods and in different social and religious environments, and concludes by outlining a theory of fellow-feeling as the primary source of our knowledge of one another.A prolific writer and a stimulating thinker, Max Scheler ranks second only to Husserl as a leading member of the German phenomenological school. Scheler's work lies mostly in the fields of ethics, politics, sociology, and religion. He looked to the emotions, believing them capable, in their own quality, of revealing the nature of the objects, and more especially the values, to which they are in principle directed.

Author : Lauren Wispé
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-09
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475767797

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The Psychology of Sympathy by Lauren Wispé Pdf

The origins of this book probably go back to Gordon Allport's seminar in social psychology at Harvard during the late 1940s and to the invitation from Gardner Lindzey, some years later, to contribute a section on "Sympathy and Empathy" to the International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences (1968). Since those early beginnings, the book has been "in the process of becoming. " During that time I have benefited greatly from the knowledge and assistance of many colleagues, especially the following, who read and commented upon portions of the manuscript: Raymond Gastil, the late Joseph Katz, David McClelland, Jitendra Mohanty, Paul Mussen, Richard Solomon, and Bernard Weiner. To Kenneth Merrill for a close reading of the Hume material and to M. Brewster Smith for a careful reading of and suggestions on Chapters 7 and 8, I am especially indebted. Beverly Joyce withstood constant interruptions to provide much-needed library assistance, and Vivian Wheeler gave generously of her excellent editorial experience and knowledge. A fellowship at the Battelle Research Center in Seattle and an appointment as a visiting scholar at Harvard were of incalculable help, providing opportunity, stimulation, and freedom from teaching responsibilities. To all of the above I am deeply indebted. Just a few words about the organization of this book.

Author : William Hill Brown
Publisher : Graphic Arts Books
Page : 122 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-08-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781513273679

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The Power of Sympathy by William Hill Brown Pdf

The Power of Sympathy (1789) is a novel by American author William Hill Brown. Considered the first American novel, The Power of Sympathy is a work of sentimental fiction which explores the lessons of the Enlightenment on the virtues of rational thought. A story of forbidden romance, seduction, and incest, Brown’s novel is based on the real-life scandal of Perez Morton and Fanny Apthorp, a New England brother- and sister-in-law who struck up an affair that ended in suicide and infamy. Inspired by their tragedy, and hoping to write a novel which captured the need for rational education in the newly formed United States of America, Brown wrote and published The Power of Sympathy anonymously in Boston. The novel, narrated in a series of letters, is the story of Thomas Harrington. He falls for the local beauty Harriot Fawcet, initially hoping to make her his mistress. But when she rejects him, his friend Jack Worthy suggests that he attempt to court and then propose to her, which is the honorable and lawful choice. Thomas’ overly sentimental mind is persuaded by Jack’s unflinching reason, and so he decides to pursue Harriot once more. This time, he is successful, and the two eventually become engaged, but their happiness soon fades when Mrs. Eliza Holmes, a family friend of the Harringtons, reveals the true nature of Harriot’s identity. As the secrets of Mr. Harrington—Thomas’ father—are revealed, the couple are forced to choose between the morals and laws of society and the passionate love they share. The Power of Sympathy is a moving work of tragedy and romance with a pointed message about the need for education in the recently founded United States. Despite borrowing from the British and European traditions of sentimental fiction and the epistolary novel, Brown’s work is a distinctly American masterpiece worthy of our continued respect and attention. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of William Hill Brown’s The Power of Sympathy is a classic of American literature reimagined for modern readers.

Author : Max Ferdinand SCHELER
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0710067968

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The Nature of Sympathy ... Translated ... by Peter Heath ... With a General Introduction to Max Scheler's Work by W. Stark. (Reprinted.). by Max Ferdinand SCHELER Pdf

Author : Adam Smith (économiste)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 636 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1812
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092833964

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The Theory of Moral Sentiments by Adam Smith (économiste) Pdf

Author : A. Rai
Publisher : Springer
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2002-06-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780312299170

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Rule of Sympathy by A. Rai Pdf

The Rule of Sympathy is a social and historical critique of sympathy in British discourse in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century. Although initially associated with feminized or effeminate forms of sentimental discourse (the romance, the novel, the gothic), sympathy came to function as a key technology of gender and race in new evangelical social movements, such as abolitionism and missionizing. Amit Rai argues that sympathy was a paradoxical mode of power. The differences of racial, gender and class inequalities that increasingly divided the object and agent of sympathy were precisely what must be bridged through identification. Yet without such differences, which were differences of power, sympathy itself would be impossible. This paradoxical mode of power transformed the ways in which people came to think of how best to manage, order, and govern individuals and populations in the late eighteenth century.

Author : Seth Lobis
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2015-01-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780300210415

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The Virtue of Sympathy by Seth Lobis Pdf

Beginning with an analysis of Shakespeare’s The Tempest and building to a new reading of Milton’s Paradise Lost, author Seth Lobis charts a profound change in the cultural meaning of sympathy during the seventeenth century. Having long referred to magical affinities in the universe, sympathy was increasingly understood to be a force of connection between people. By examining sympathy in literary and philosophical writing of the period, Lobis illuminates an extraordinary shift in human understanding.

Author : Laura Hinton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-09-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781438406787

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The Perverse Gaze of Sympathy by Laura Hinton Pdf

Suggesting that sentimental novels, films, and TV melodramas are guided by an ambivalent and sadoerotic sympathy, this book shows sympathetic sentiments to be cultural formulations of male desire, and sympathy itself to be the embodiment of a controlling gaze. In a playful but historically persuasive linkage of diverse texts, Laura Hinton shows how sympathetic spectators love their victims and, in the process, maintain authoritarian codes of sexual and racial difference.

Author : Mark Eli Kalderon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108419604

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Sympathy in Perception by Mark Eli Kalderon Pdf

A wide-ranging study of the nature of perception, discussing touch, hearing and vision, and bringing together analytic and continental approaches.

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 : Lars Spuybroek
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 437 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-21
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781474243889

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The Sympathy of Things by Lars Spuybroek Pdf

'If there is one thing we can learn from John Ruskin, it is that each age must find its own way to beauty' writes Lars Spuybroek in The Sympathy of Things, his ground-breaking work which proposes a radical new aesthetics for the digital era. Spuybroek argues that we must 'undo' the twentieth century and learn to understand the aesthetic insights of the nineteenth-century art critic John Ruskin, from which he distils pointers for the contemporary age. Linking philosophy, design, and the digital, with art history, architecture, and craft, Spuybroek explores the romantic notion of 'sympathy', a core concept in Ruskin's aesthetics, re-evaluating it as the driving force of the twenty-first century aesthetic experience. For Ruskin, beauty always comprises variation, imperfection and fragility, three concepts that wholly disappeared from our mindsets during the twentieth century, but which Spuybroek argues to be central to contemporary aesthetics and design. Revised throughout, and a new foreword by philosopher Brian Massumi, this is a new edition of a seminal work which has drawn praise from fields as diverse as digital architecture and speculative realism, and will continue to be influential as it wrests Ruskin's ideas out of the Victorian era and reconstructs them for the modern age.

Author : Eric Schliesser
Publisher : Oxford Philosophical Concepts
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199928897

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Sympathy by Eric Schliesser Pdf

This volume offers a historical overview of some of the most significant attempts to come to grips with sympathy in Western thought from Plato to experimental economics. The contributors are leading scholars in philosophy, classics, history, economics, comparative literature, and political science.

Author : Sandra Lee Bartky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0847697797

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Sympathy and Solidarity by Sandra Lee Bartky Pdf

In a rare full-length volume, renowned feminist thinker Sandra Lee Bartky brings together eight essays in one volume, Sympathy and Solidarity. A philosophical work accessible to an educated general audience, the essays reflect the intersection of the author's eye, work, and sometimes her politics. Two motifs connect the works: first, all deal with feminist topics and themes; second, most deal with the reality of oppression, especially in the disguised and subtle ways it can be manifested.

Author : Liberty Hyde Bailey
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1015773095

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The Nature-Study Idea by Liberty Hyde Bailey Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Marianne Noble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781108481335

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Rethinking Sympathy and Human Contact in Nineteenth-Century American Literature by Marianne Noble Pdf

The book analyzes the evolution of antebellum literary explorations of sympathy and human contact in the 1850s and 1860s. It will appeal to undergraduates and scholars seeking new approaches to canonical American authors, psychological theorists of sympathy and empathy, and philosophers of moral philosophy.