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... sentiment ' rather loosely to mean a ' mental feeling ' or an ' emotional thought ' . Hume , for example , sometimes uses ' sentiment ' in a confusing , but convenient way . His ' moral sense ' is the result of feeling , ' of individual ...
... sentiment ' rather loosely to mean a ' mental feeling ' or an ' emotional thought ' . Hume , for example , sometimes uses ' sentiment ' in a confusing , but convenient way . His ' moral sense ' is the result of feeling , ' of individual ...
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... sentiments . Sterne's writing also recognizes the complexity of sentiment and opposes moral oversimplification . Tristram does , how- ever , present sentiment as simple emotion in the earlier por- tions of Tristram Shandy . He provides ...
... sentiments . Sterne's writing also recognizes the complexity of sentiment and opposes moral oversimplification . Tristram does , how- ever , present sentiment as simple emotion in the earlier por- tions of Tristram Shandy . He provides ...
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... sentiment , Tristram's tone , histrionically exaggerated or mockingly coy , reveals a distrust of his own use of ' sentiment ' . Sterne also discusses sentiment outside his novels in the ser- mons where , like Hume , he presents the ...
... sentiment , Tristram's tone , histrionically exaggerated or mockingly coy , reveals a distrust of his own use of ' sentiment ' . Sterne also discusses sentiment outside his novels in the ser- mons where , like Hume , he presents the ...
Contents
Contributors | 7 |
Introduction | 15 |
Nature as Ethical Norm in the Enlightenment | 51 |
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