Sentence examples for mere feeling from inspiring English sources

In religious life Bhaskara was an advocate of bhakti, but bhakti is not a mere feeling of love or affection for God but rather is dhyana, or meditation, directed toward the transcendent brahman which is not exhausted in its manifestations.

These are timeless stories in their revelations of human character, in their charting of how a mere feeling - something numinous and emotional called "love" - grew to take over two lives.

"Justice is to be reduced to a mere feeling and experience; the good deed is effected not by human will but by divine grace; man himself is a mere object and not a personality.

The affect is non-representational and regarded as a "mere" feeling.

Note that Eliot is not saying that morality in its highest sense is only a matter of mere feeling or raw emotion.

Differences in higher cognitive involvement also lie behind joy being often classified as an emotion, involving more explicit positive evaluation of something (e.g., Duncker 1941, pp. 401-2), rathan than with pleasure as a mere feeling.

I does this, according to Fichte's analysis, by positing its own limitation, first, as a mere "feeling," then as a "sensation," then as an "intuition" of a thing, and finally as a "concept".

After all, the fiction writer has pledged an oath to serve a calling higher than mere feelings.

This important shift in Wood's thinking helped him and the rest of us understand more clearly the emergence of liberalism in 19th-century America, since mere feelings of benevolence proved too weak at that time to restrain the overriding commercial values of individualism and self-interest.

Striking because before the Church of England approved woman as priests in 1992, opponents constantly told supporters that the pain of women excluded from the priesthood must have nothing to do with our corporate decision making – that would be to give into mere feelings.

By stressing that states of approbation are not mere feelings but include full-blooded moral judgments, Reid takes himself to have corrected a deficiency in Hutcheson's view.