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Introduction: Crying over Little Nell [PDF]

open access: yes, 2007
Do you ever find yourself coming over all sentimental? And if you do, do you like it, or do you feel embarrassed by your sentimental proclivities? Is sentimentality a pleasurable indulgence, a minor vice, or a lapse of aesthetic and moral taste?
Bown, Nicola
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Overriding Virtue [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
If you focus your charitable giving on global causes where it will do the most good, how should you feel about passing by the local soup kitchen? Would the ideally virtuous agent have their (local) empathy still activated, but simply overridden by the ...
Chappell, Richard Y.
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“Tribulations of a Cheerful Giver”: Political Economy of William Dean Howells [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Litterarum, 2019
The article is a close reading of the autobiographical sketch “Tribulations of a Cheerful Giver” by William Dean Howells in the context of the discourses of benevolence and charity in the 19 th century United States.
Alexandra P. Urakova
doaj   +1 more source

Constitutional Sentiments [PDF]

open access: yesActa Juridica Hungarica, 2006
The principal claim of the essay is that sentiments and assumptions about senti-ments– have an important role in setting up constitutional designs and interpretation (“evolvingstandards of decency”);– constitutional arrangements do have impacts on social emotions;– the disregard of the interrelation of emotions and other forms of cognition ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Irresistible Ingénues

open access: yesArts et Savoirs, 2019
The ingenuous girl was an integral motif in Diderot’s musings on the body as an aesthetic object. This essay proposes a reading of his review of “Weeping Girl”, a painting by Jean-Baptiste Greuze that featured in Diderot’s Salon de 1765.
Kelsey Roy
doaj   +1 more source

FEATURES OF SENTIMENTALISM IN THE PASTORAL NOVEL OF WILLIAM GODWIN "IMOGEN"

open access: yesIzvestiya of the Samara Science Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Social, Humanitarian, Medicobiological Sciences, 2021
The subject of the article is the peculiarities of sentimentalism in one of W. Godwin's early novels "Imogen". The author comes to the conclusion that, relying on the traditional understanding of sentimental pastoralism (the leading role of nature in the
M. A. Seregina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Sentimentator

open access: yesDigital Humanities in the Nordic and Baltic Countries Publications, 2018
We introduce Sentimentator; a publicly available gamified web-based annotation platform for fine-grained sentiment annotation at the sentence-level. Sentimentator is unique in that it moves beyond binary classification. We use a ten-dimensional model which allows for the annotation of 51 unique sentiments and emotions. The platform is gamified with a
Emily Öhman, Kaisla Kajava
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Humean Sentimentalism, Sentimentalist Antinatalism, and the Metaphysics of Procreation

open access: yesTopoi
There is no doubt that Humean sentimentalism provides a basis for thinking about future people. However, this thinking does not necessarily lead to concern about their coming into the world.
Konrad Szocik
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Contextualization of the Classic Moral Sentimentalism

open access: yesPostmodern Openings, 2021
Moral sentimentalism can be defined as the philosophical theory according to which emotions are the source of our value judgements, in general, and of our moral judgements, in particular.
Rarița Mihail
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Schrödinger's Cat and Digital Empathy: How Primary School Children Understand and Respond to Others' Feelings in Online Spaces

open access: yesChildren &Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Children's digital and physical worlds are increasingly entwined as they build and manage meaningful connections online. Central to this is digital empathy and responsible online conduct, that is, a digital ethics of care. We focus on 10–11‐year‐old children from a primary school in the UK, exploring how they conceptualise and understand the ...
Michelle O'Reilly   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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