Malebranche divides grace, the divine assistance given to human beings, into two kinds, which he calls "grace of light (lumière)" and "grace of feeling (sentiment)" (OM, 5 96 97; 131).
"[W]hen you pronounce any action or character to be vicious, you mean nothing, but that from the constitution of your nature you have a feeling or sentiment of blame from the contemplation of it.
While Hume agreed with Hobbes that reason by itself cannot motivate action, he disagreed with Hobbes about the motive that prompted action, believing that instead of self-interest, the feeling or sentiment of sympathy or benevolence is necessary for prompting moral action.
Of note, participants also described barriers that prevented them from feeling a sentiment of belonging.
She was born in 1916 into what Lee calls "a brilliantly clever English family distinguished by alarming honesty, caustic wit, shyness, moral rigour, willpower, oddness, and powerful banked-down feelings, erupting in moments of sentiment or in violent bursts of temper and gloom".
Blair continued: "Politics it goes in waves of sentiment and feeling.
But Mr. Jacobs has never been a designer whose style incorporates great displays of sentiment or feeling.
Our moral judgments, then, are best understood as deliverances of sentiment or feeling.
It is derived from an "impression of reflection" (an internal feeling or sentiment), not from an "impression of sensation" (an observed instance before the mind), and it is in precisely this sense, for Hume, that the idea of necessary connection is merely subjective.
