Having It Both Ways? Sympathy and Self-Love in Thomas Jefferson’s Moral Philosophy
Having It Both Ways? Sympathy and Self-Love in Thomas Jefferson’s Moral Philosophy
Author(s): Zoltán VajdaSubject(s): Cultural history, Semiology, Ethics / Practical Philosophy, Social history, Early Modern Philosophy, 18th Century
Published by: Pécsi Tudományegyetem
Keywords: Sentimentalism; sympathy; sensibility; eighteenth-century philosophy; Scottish moral philosophy; American intellectual history; empirical psychology; rationality;
Summary/Abstract: A long-time concern in literary studies, the sentimental conception of sympathy as a subject of scholarly inquiry, has recently also become a subject of American cultural and intellectual history. Derived from eighteenth-century English empirical psychology, the theory of the senses and Scottish moral philosophy, sensibility and sentimentalism soon emerged giving priority to feeling and the senses over reason and rationality.
Journal: FOCUS: Papers in English Literary and Cultural Studies
- Issue Year: 12/2020
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 83-92
- Page Count: 10
- Language: English
