Sentence examples for sympathetic consciousness from inspiring English sources

Can there be a 'malevolent compassion'?" My appellant -- a member of an elite group of tautology-spotters that calls itself the Squad Squad -- noted that Merriam-Webster's 10th Collegiate Dictionary defines compassion as "sympathetic consciousness of others' distress together with a desire to alleviate it".

This is because compassion is the "sympathetic consciousness of others' distress with a desire to alleviate it".

Although not providing full scale defences of panpsychism, several other writers have recently approached the problem of consciousness in ways sympathetic to panpsychism.

The aggressive image of skins as either demented thugs or Blood and Honour Nazis is too embedded in the popular consciousness for even a sympathetic makeover at the cinema to eradicate that.

Whithouse preferred the cyborg villain to be three-dimensional and sympathetic, which would require it to have a "living consciousness" rather than simply be a "soulless automaton".

His fine, reverberating consciousness sets off a corresponding reverberation in the sympathetic reader, who can't help but admire the way Italy liberates an appetite for sensual experience in this most cerebral of authors.

Whereas contemporary writers (Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry David Thoreau) focused on a sympathetic bond on the two elements, Crane wrote from the perspective that human consciousness distanced humans from nature.

In contrast, Carruthers (1989) asserts that his own arguments that nonhuman animals (even dogs) lack consciousness are sufficiently weighty that we are morally obligated to eradicate or ignore our sympathetic feelings toward such creatures.

I'm sympathetic with it, but as a practical matter, I don't know what more you do with consciousness other than enjoy it.

Utilitarians and those sympathetic to utilitarian approaches often see the protection and promotion of interests, where this is understood to presuppose consciousness, as the central subject matter of morality (e.g., DeGrazia 1996, p. 39).

(That Eddy would fall and lose consciousness as a child is supported by Robert Peel (1909 1992), who worked for the church and wrote a sympathetic three-volume biography of Eddy).