Sentence examples for sentiment and reason from inspiring English sources

The narrator considers a sunset in terms of pure maths in the third act, backed with lap steel and tabla, and its blend of sentiment and reason is truly beautiful.

He also offers the argument that since the chain of reasons why one acts must finally stop at something that is "desirable on its own account… because of its immediate accord or agreement with sentiment…" (EPM App.1.19), sentiment is needed to account for ultimate human ends; and since virtue is an end, sentiment and not reason alone must distinguish moral good and evil.

Sentimentalism, championed by Francis Hutcheson, David Hume, and Adam Smith, holds that ethical concepts stem from sentiments and regards reason as incapable of moving us to action.

The 6-to-3 decision was a dramatic turnaround for a court that capitulated 13 years ago to a wave of pro-death-penalty sentiment and found no reason to bar the execution of the mentally retarded.

He argued (in a manner that anticipates Hume) that because our sense of morality is a sentiment, it can be opposed only by another sentiment, and not by reason or belief.

Among the indie bookselling community in general, there is a lot of anti-Amazon sentiment, and for good reason, as I do think a big part of their goal is to quash the competition.

Indian cricket is based on passion, on easily-stirred emotions; players are worshipped for what they do, romance trumps realism, sentiment pushes out logic and reason.

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.

For Smith, the aspiration to be worthy of approval belongs to our sentiments from the beginning, and we have, accordingly, both motivation and reason to change our sentiments if they keep us from this aspiration.

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.

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.