PREMIUM-PEL Sentimentalism Nightcap 2025
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
Mark Linsenmayer
4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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We put our recent episodes on moral phenomenology into perspective, anticipating our upcoming Hume discussion and going through some other options to enrich this study of sentiment vs. rational intuition. Plus, more potential author-guests and recent philosophy book coverage.
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| 0:14.1 | hey this is your partially examined life nightcap recording We're recording this on Wednesday, April 23rd. Seth is in Europe or something right now with the rest of us are here. Hey, guys. |
| 0:27.6 | What's up? Hey. |
| 0:28.8 | This seemed a good time to have one of these finishing up our empathy slash sympathy unit, but not done with this issue. This is one of the things I wanted |
| 0:39.1 | talked about is how far you want to go. I want to go all the way, Mark. So the thing that I was, |
| 0:45.5 | you know, we only really got a taste of from these two folks was just moral epistemology. How do we |
| 0:50.8 | know what is right and wrong? So we got that straightforwardly, phenomenologically, from Brentano that we just have, how did he put it? He didn't say we have a moral sense. It just appears to us objectively, intuitively, that some things are better than other things. Is that pretty much what? I know Dylan wasn't on this. West, does that seem |
| 1:11.2 | an accurate characterization? I've already forgotten Brentano. Yeah, some things are worthy of being |
| 1:17.7 | loved. They just have that property of being inherently worthy of being love. It's right to love |
| 1:24.6 | certain things and not right to love others. |
| 1:32.7 | It's kind of reminiscent of one of the people that Hume is actually arguing against since we're going to be doing Hume soon. But this idea that... |
| 1:34.4 | Is it Clark? |
| 1:35.1 | There's Samuel Clark. |
| 1:36.7 | Yes. |
| 1:36.9 | Yes. |
| 1:37.8 | But, yeah, one of these views is just that certain... |
| 1:41.3 | Well, it's rationalism, right? For Clark, it's rationalism, but for Clark, it's, yeah, |
| 1:45.4 | moral truths are like, kind of like the truths of mathematics. And I think one of the metaphors |
| 1:50.8 | is this idea of fitting this so that human beings relate to each other in certain ways that are |
| 1:55.8 | fitting and certain ways that are unfitting in the way that a certain shape might fit into |
| 2:00.0 | another geometrical shape or not fit into another geometrical shape |
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