The Enlightenment of Sympathy reclaims the sentimentalist theory of reflective autonomy as a resource for enriching social science, normative theory, and political practice today. The sentimentalist description of the reflective process is more empirically accurate than the competing rationalist description, and can guide scientists investigating the processes by which the mind formulates moral and political principles. Yet the theory is much more thanmerely descriptive, and can also contribute to the philosophical project of finding principles¿including principles of justice¿that wield…mehr
The Enlightenment of Sympathy reclaims the sentimentalist theory of reflective autonomy as a resource for enriching social science, normative theory, and political practice today. The sentimentalist description of the reflective process is more empirically accurate than the competing rationalist description, and can guide scientists investigating the processes by which the mind formulates moral and political principles. Yet the theory is much more thanmerely descriptive, and can also contribute to the philosophical project of finding principles¿including principles of justice¿that wield genuine normative authority. Enlightenment sentimentalism demonstrates that emotion is necessarily central to our civic life, and shows how our reflective sentiments cancounterbalance the unreflective feelings that might otherwise lead our political principles astray.
Michael L. Frazer is an Assistant Professor of Government and Social Studies at Harvard University. His research focuses on Enlightenment political philosophy and its relevance for contemporary political theory. Professor Frazer has also published articles on Maimonides, Nietzsche, John Rawls and Leo Strauss in such journals as Political Theory and The Review of Politics. Before arriving at Harvard, he studied at Yale and Princeton Universities, and received a postdoctoral appointment in the Political Theory Project at Brown University. He lives in Somerville, MA with his wife Coral and son Oren.
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Acknowledgements Introduction: A Tale of Two Enlightenments Chapter 1: Sentimentalism Before Hume I. The New Science of Human Nature II. Religious and Metaphysical Foundations III. Theories of Justice Chapter 2: Hume's Free-Standing Sentimentalism I. Sympathy and the Moral Sentiments II. Moral Development III. Hume's Normative Theory Chapter 3: Hume's Conservative Sentimentalism I. Hume's Theory of Justice II. The Sentimentalist Case Against Hume's Theory Chapter 4: Adam Smith's Liberal Sentimentalism I. The Alleged Incompatibility of Sentimentalism with Individualism II. The Space Between Actor and Spectator: Sympathy and Moral Judgment III. The Space Between Actors: Justice and Natural Jurisprudence Chapter 5: Kant's Abandonment of Sentimentalism I. The Critical-Period Position on the Foundations of Morals II. The Critical-Period Normative Evaluation of Sympathy III. The Critical-Period Theory of Affects and Passions IV. A Contrasting Pre-Critical Position Chapter 6: Herder's Pluralist Sentimentalism I. Sentimentalism and the Problem of Diversity II. From Sympathy to Diversity III. From Diversity to Empathetic Understanding IV. From Empathetic Understanding to Justice Chapter 7: Sentimentalism Today I. Sentimentalism and Social Science II. Sentimentalism and Normative Theory III. Sentimentalism and Political Practice Bibliography
Acknowledgements Introduction: A Tale of Two Enlightenments Chapter 1: Sentimentalism Before Hume I. The New Science of Human Nature II. Religious and Metaphysical Foundations III. Theories of Justice Chapter 2: Hume's Free-Standing Sentimentalism I. Sympathy and the Moral Sentiments II. Moral Development III. Hume's Normative Theory Chapter 3: Hume's Conservative Sentimentalism I. Hume's Theory of Justice II. The Sentimentalist Case Against Hume's Theory Chapter 4: Adam Smith's Liberal Sentimentalism I. The Alleged Incompatibility of Sentimentalism with Individualism II. The Space Between Actor and Spectator: Sympathy and Moral Judgment III. The Space Between Actors: Justice and Natural Jurisprudence Chapter 5: Kant's Abandonment of Sentimentalism I. The Critical-Period Position on the Foundations of Morals II. The Critical-Period Normative Evaluation of Sympathy III. The Critical-Period Theory of Affects and Passions IV. A Contrasting Pre-Critical Position Chapter 6: Herder's Pluralist Sentimentalism I. Sentimentalism and the Problem of Diversity II. From Sympathy to Diversity III. From Diversity to Empathetic Understanding IV. From Empathetic Understanding to Justice Chapter 7: Sentimentalism Today I. Sentimentalism and Social Science II. Sentimentalism and Normative Theory III. Sentimentalism and Political Practice Bibliography
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