Williams writes, "It would be a kind of insanity never to experience sentiments of this kind towards anyone, and it would be an insane concept of rationality which insisted that a rational person never would".
More important than the philosophical side of his enterprise, however, was the excellent delineation of a central experience and sentiment and the elucidation of the concept of the Holy.
Its title is Even This I Get to Experience, a sentiment he's considered engraving on his tombstone.
During the biggest economic boom the Northwest has ever experienced, antitax sentiment has become positively New Hampshireesque.
I experienced this sentiment firsthand last semester, while teaching two writing courses at the University of Illinois at Chicago – courses designed around the topic "terrorism and everyday life".
Those who contribute to a public good sometimes experience punitive sentiments toward others.
But what is particularly interesting for our purposes is to consider how it figures as a standard for the experience of sentiments.
The difficulty for Hume is to explain why we nonetheless typically experience pleasurable sentiments directed at instances of promise-keeping, despite the artificial foundation of the practice.
Although Hume believes that only human beings experience moral sentiments, he believes that nonhuman animals also have sympathy, and thus share with us one of the essential foundations of morality.
As a journalist I have never experienced that sentiment before.
