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.
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
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.
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: A Tale of Two Enlightenments -- 1. Sentimentalism before Hume -- I. The New Science of Human Nature -- II. Religious and Metaphysical Foundations -- III. Theories of Justice -- 2. Hume's Free-Standing Sentimentalism -- I. Sympathy and the Moral Sentiments -- II. Moral Development -- III. Hume's Normative Theory -- 3. Hume's Conservative Sentimentalism -- I. Hume's Theory of Justice -- II. The Sentimentalist Case against Hume's Theory -- 4. Adam Smith's Liberal Sentimentalism -- I. Sentimentalism and Individualism -- II. The Space between Actor and Spectator: Sympathy and Moral Judgment -- III. The Space between Actors: Justice and Natural Jurisprudence -- 5. Kant's Abandonment of Sentimentalism -- I. The Critical-Period Position on the Foundations of Morals -- II. The Critical-Period Normative Evaluation of Sympathy -- III. The Critical-Period Theory of Affects and Passions -- IV. A Contrasting Precritical Position -- 6. Herder's Pluralist Sentimentalism -- I. Sentimentalism and the Problem of Diversity -- II. From Sympathy to Diversity -- III. From Diversity to Empathetic Understanding -- IV. From Empathetic Understanding to Justice -- 7. Sentimentalism Today -- I. Sentimentalism and Social Science -- II. Sentimentalism and Normative Theory -- III. Sentimentalism and Political Practice -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
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