LITERATURE QUESTIONS
CULTURAL AND LITERARY (18TH 19TH) CENTURIES
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A refusal to emphasize the innate goodness of humanity
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An emphasis on the power of sympathy to allow individuals to feel others’ pain and joy
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A sense of awe in the power of the natural world
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A parody of the interest in emotion that developed out of the Enlightenment interest in reason
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Detailed explanation-1: -Sentimentalism is commonly understood as a thesis about moral judgments or concepts. Moral thought involves or refers to our sentiments, and moral language somehow or other expresses or refers to sentiments. Judgment sentimentalism comes both in non-cognitivist and cognitivist varieties.
Detailed explanation-2: -Moral sense theory (also known as moral sentimentalism) is a theory in moral epistemology and meta-ethics concerning the discovery of moral truths. Moral sense theory typically holds that distinctions between morality and immorality are discovered by emotional responses to experience.
Detailed explanation-3: -Sympathy is more of a feeling of pity for another. Empathy is our ability to understand how someone feels while sympathy is our relief in not having the same problems. When we relate with empathy, we give the other person space to own their emotions and feelings.
Detailed explanation-4: -Sympathy in this sense is the impulse that causes us to imagine ourselves in someone else’s place and thereby to experience sentiments that may be or not in accord with hers. If this accord can take place, we morally approve her conduct; if not, we disapprove of it.