#vegan #climatechange #carnivore #ethics #rickygervais #sentimentalism #emotional #humean #debunk

Reason is, and ought only to be the slave of the passions, and can never pretend to any other office than to serve and obey them.

David Hume
The Treatise on Human Nature
1740

#empiricism #skepticism #naturalism #C18 #philosophysky #booksky #philosopher #humannature #sentimentalism #psychology

Blond and Brunette (1879) - Charles Burton Barber (1845-1894) #sentimentalism

Toxic Beauty 🖌️🎨
#surrealism #expression #acrylicpainting #sentimentalism

Holding the book "The Sentimental State" in front of a wall overgrown with red and yellow leaves

This 2024 book by Elizabeth Garner Masarik asks, "how women-led reform built the American welfare state" by harnessing 19th c #sentimentalism to drive political action

opac.sub.uni-goettin...

#AmericanStudies #AmericanHistory #WomensHistory #WomensStudies #AffectTheory

So there's been a lot of really good work on the role of nerves in the development of #sensibility and #sentimentalism. But I'm currently looking for anything that talks about the heart, ideally, as a medical subject/as an organ but also open to symbolic readings of the heart #c18