Having It Both Ways? Sympathy and Self-Love in Thomas Jefferson’s Moral Philosophy
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https://doi.org/10.15170/Focus/10.2020.5.83-92Abstract
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.
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