Our staring, which seems so rude in person, can actually be a look of sympathetic engagement.
Finally, the book is about what close looking at, and sympathetic engagement with, the other does to us.
In "The Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759), Adam Smith observed that sensory experience alone could not spur us toward sympathetic engagement with others: "Though our brother is upon the rack, as long as we ourselves are at our ease, our senses will never inform us of what he suffers".
Li Keqiang, a deputy prime minister, still looks set to take over from Mr Wen in 2013.Against this backdrop of political stability and economic growth, the most credible interpretation of the government's recent hard line is that the forces pushing its leaders towards greater liberalisation at home and sympathetic engagement with the West are weaker than had been hoped.
Herder's serious and sympathetic engagement with Spinoza's work goes back at least as far as 1769.
This is a feature crucial to the theological approach, which would clearly be rejected by Hume in favor of a naturalistic view of human nature and a reliance on our sympathetic engagement with others, an approach anticipated by Shaftesbury (below).
Often, this was enacted in the small gestures made by professionals that authenticated their sympathetic engagement.
These parents also reinforced what we already know about the value of clinician empathy, direct eye contact, and sympathetic engagement [ 39].
The first national security ordinances in 1951 made the sending of Eastern propaganda into West German territory and any other form of political engagement sympathetic to SED and KPD a criminal offence.
Toobin's article shows that Justice Thomas is a man who isolates himself intellectually from ideas that differ from his own he hires only clerks who agree with him, fails to participate in Court arguments, avoids discussing cases with other Justices, and limits his speaking engagements to sympathetic organizations and institutions.
