Sentence examples for reason and sentiment from inspiring English sources

But I also think that the way reason and sentiment have been treated as dichotomous is flawed.

La France coupée en deux is a familiar representation of the political realm, referring to historical divisions between conservative and progressive blocs, but also dichotomous ways of seeing the world such as opening and closure, stasis and transformation, reason and sentiment, unity and diversity, civilisation and barbarity, masculine and feminine, and good and evil.

On the contrary, the moral evaluation of character involves the activity of both reason and sentiment.

In Shaftesbury's account of virtue, then, reason and sentiment both play essential roles.

Apparently Hume thought he could show that reason and sentiment rule different domains without using those arguments.

Mr. Klein pointed to budget cuts and layoffs as a reason union relations soured and sentiment turned against the mayor.

With these passages, he sets the tone for his own defence by appealing to both the reason and the religious sentiments of his audience to prove his innocence: Some critics argue that Swift did not need to defend himself, and To Viscount Molesworth was written to gloat.

Yet, in the realm of public morality it is necessary to weigh reason against sentiment, and to see how precedent and general policy will be affected by a particular and emotionally charged decision.

In many respects, this simply follows from Hume's sentimentalist approach to aesthetic judgments: like moral judgments, they are based on sense and sentiment, not reason.

"Everyone predicted it," he added, but for reasons of sentiment and national pride, "no one believed it".

"Simply for reasons of sentiment and piety, it would be wanton to destroy it," he said of Carnegie Hall at the time.