Sentence examples for sentiments of human from inspiring English sources

Though he would certainly not endorse Crummell's advocacy of natural rights in this discussion, he would surely admire his appeal to the sentiments of human nature as a ground for legal and political action.

The second step in Crummell's Natural Rights Argument holds that rights may be inferred from the "settled and primary sentiments" of human nature as well as from the "original grounds of high dignities" and "exalted tendencies" of our common humanity ("New York Convention Address," 201).

Seems like an internationally idealistic sentiment of human rights and religious liberty that you would agree with if it hadn't been uttered by Newt Gingrich.

The reality of the distinction between good and evil — whether physical or moral — depends on "the natural sentiments of the human mind".

Most commentators, however, reflect the esteemed Bach scholar Robert L Marshall's view that the St John Passion "gives voice to some of the loftiest sentiments of the human spirit [and] neither that supreme masterpiece nor its incomparable maker needs any apology".

Hence, even if we were to grant that this is indeed the best of all possible worlds and Hume clearly takes the view that we have no reason to suppose that it is (D, 113 4; EU, 11.15 22/137 42)—this would do nothing to undermine the reality of the distinction we draw between good and evil (i.e. as experienced on the basis of "the natural sentiments of the human mind": EU, 8.35/103).

In fact, he argues that the fine arts must arouse the full range of human sentiments, even sentiments of ugliness (although, unlike Lessing, he does not distinguish among the fine arts in this regard) ("Häßlich" ("Ugly"), Allgemeine Theorie, volume II, pp. 457 9).

When we recognise the intention and the sentiment of a human interaction, we can react to it accordingly.

Shaftesbury's "sense of right and wrong" is truly a sentiment, but it is a sentiment that accurately represents an objective reality i.e., a reality that is independent of human sentiments.

A science of human sentiments – what Davies calls "the surveillance, management and government of our feelings" – is thus one of the fastest growing forms of manipulative knowledge.

Humeans, for example, appeal to the structure of human sentiments; Hobbesians, to rough equality and mutual vulnerability; Aristotelians, to the conditions for the flourishing specific to our kind.