It was a sympathetic reading of the man, who died earlier this year.
Even a sympathetic reading of Alceste can't deny his extreme rigidity, or the darkness of his worldview; he has been compared to Hamlet as a truth-teller in a house of deceptive fools.
Faced with the choice, I would adopt a "sympathetic" reading, one which comports with dictates of fundamental justice and recognizes that compassion need not be exiled from the province of judging.
(Though Nero did not "fiddle while Rome burned," it's entirely possible that he strummed the lyre and recited poetry as the city was consumed by flames in 64 A.D). Seneca's tragedies support a sympathetic reading of his life or, alternatively, just complicate things still further.
But it will be read by voyeurs curious to know what all the fuss is about, it will be read by the art world who know Millet in her role as a leading curator, and it will be given a sympathetic reading by a Sex and the City generation of women whose sexual encounters are numerous and guilt-free.' Millet wears her new-found fame with a little discomfort.
It represents a sympathetic reading of Kant that any account of him must now come to terms with.
A sympathetic reading (e.g., Dieks 1987) suggests that the notion serves usefully in mediating between a traditional a priori commitment to Euclidean geometry and the view of modern geometrodynamics, where gravitational force is "geometrised away" (see §5).
For discussion of the questions of disinterestedness and formalism, see Guyer (1979, chs. 5 and 6), and Allison (2001, chs. 4 and 5); Zuckert offers a sympathetic reading of Kant's formalism (2007, pp. 182 189).
According to a sympathetic reading of the ambiguous discussion in which this analysis is advanced, any patient who meets even one of these criteria is alive and therefore not dead.
The way the Gospel writers customarily depict them doesn't leave much room for a sympathetic reading.
