When in 1830 the ship was condemned as unseaworthy and recommended for breaking up, public sentiment was aroused by Oliver Wendell Holmes's poem "Old Ironsides".
If conduct is produced by external violence, no moral sentiment is aroused and, thus, we do not (as a matter of fact) hold the person responsible.
Indeed, unlike Strawson, Hume is much more concerned with the detailed mechanism whereby our moral sentiments are aroused, and thus he is particularly concerned to explain the relevance of spontaneity, indifference, and necessity to the functioning of moral sentiment.
Surely, any attempt to describe the circumstances in which certain sentiments are aroused in us is hopelessly irrelevant to our present-day concerns and based wholly on assumptions that have long since been rejected.
This claim is part of Hume's more general claim that our indirect passions (including our moral sentiments) are aroused and sustained only when the pleasurable or painful qualities concerned (e.g. the virtues and vices) stand in a durable or constant relation with the person who is their object (T, 2.1.6.7/292 3; DP, 2.11).
I'm sure that sentiment will arouse ire in many of my liberal pals, but those folks can't see the forest through the partisan trees.
The picture was authentic, but the sentiment that it aroused was not.
Already in South Korea, despite the two countries' often similar feelings about North Korea, anti-Chinese sentiment is easily aroused.
The New Yorker, November 13 , 1948P. 90 The dramatic, unexpected turn in our Presidential election caused extreme surprise, gave great satisfaction, and certainly aroused sentiment here.
By Janet Flanner The New Yorker, November 13 , 1948P. 90 The dramatic, unexpected turn in our Presidential election caused extreme surprise, gave great satisfaction, and certainly aroused sentiment here.
Hume concludes that belief must be some sentiment or feeling aroused in us independently of our wills, which accompanies those ideas that constitute them.
