Our first-order sentiments, passions and affections, as well as actions expressive of them, are what have moral value.
Our second-order reflective sentiments about our own or other people's sentiments, passions and affections are what give them value.
For me, it is a celebration of the warmest sentiments: love, friendship, passion, and compassion (and the sweet treats are an added bonus).
It is about sentiment, commitment, passion.
All in fact preferred the charm of sentiment and passion to the enlightenment of reason.
Common observation suggests, on the contrary, that morality is based on sentiment and passion: we look at Nero, or at a neighborhood thief, and we feel disgust.
What should they call it when a poet uses a genuine folk poetry as a springboard for their own work, which ranges from sentiment to passion, from vulgarity to the final gestures of grief, from Duncan Nacleerie's fiddle, ("It's a' strung wi hair, an a hole in the middle/An ay when he plays on't, his wife leuks sae cheary") to the turning from all lovers: "Ye are na Mary Morrison".
This raises a central problem for resentment as a moral sentiment or passion: unless kept strictly within bounds it devolves into revenge and conflicts with benevolence and virtue.
Edwin Percy Whipple for one considered Holmes to be "a poet of sentiment and passion.
Sentiment and passion is the basic spirit to keep any relationship alive and worth cherishing.
