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Sensibility in the Early Modern Era - From living machines to affective morality (Hardcover)
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Sensibility in the Early Modern Era - From living machines to affective morality (Hardcover)
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Sensibility in the Early Modern Era investigates how the early
modern characterisation of sensibility as a natural property of the
body could give way to complex considerations about the importance
of affect in morality. What underlies this understanding of
sensibility is the attempt to fuse Lockean sensationism with
Scottish sentimentalism - being able to have experiences of objects
in the world is here seen as being grounded in the same principle
that also enables us to feel moral sentiments. Moral and epistemic
ways of relating to the world thus blend into one another, as both
can be traced to the same capacity that enables us to affectively
respond to stimuli that impinge on our perceptual apparatus. This
collection focuses on these connections by offering reflections on
the role of sensibility in the early modern attempt to think of the
human being as a special kind of sensitive machine and affectively
responsive animal. Humans, as they are understood in this context,
relate to themselves by sensing themselves and perpetually refining
their intellectual and moral capacities in response to the way the
world affects them. Responding to the world here refers to the
manner in which both natural and man-made influences impact on our
ability to conceptualise the animate and inanimate world, and our
place within that world. This book was originally published as a
special issue of the Intellectual History Review.
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