Darwin believed that his theory of evolution would stand or fall on its ability to account for human behavior. No species could be an exception to his theory without imperiling the whole edifice. One of the most striking features of human behavior is our very elaborate social life involving cooperation with large numbers of other people. The evolution of the ethical sensibilities and institutio...

The purpose of research on language politeness in the case Ferdy Sambo Rosi program Kompas TV is to describe practiced by Silalahi and Patra M Zen ROSI talk show. data collection was obtained using observing technique followed note taking technique. researcher found obedience violation maxims. maxim tact, generosity, humility, conformity, sympathy, praise. While violations principle were found,...

The interest in exploring fame and the love of it relates not only to Hume’s autobiography where he hypothesises the love of literary fame as a key spur to his work, but also to 2.1.11 in the Treatise where Hume offers an account of praise and our delight in it as part of his theory of the passions. It is in this section that Hume first introduces us to the wondrous mechanism of sympathy, a not...

Jenny played truant from school to visit cafes. Then she ran away with a married man. Carol refused to go to school after failing an examination. She started taking 'purple hearts and slipped out at night to visit London with parties of boys. Daily Mail columnist Monica Furlong went to see the girls parents. Now she asks whether the decision to send the girls to an approved school was the best ...

Abstract This paper argues that Kant endorses a distinction between rational and natural sympathy, it presents an interpretation of sympathy as power voluntary posteriori productive imagination. In we draw on the imagination’s powers (a) to subjectively unify contents intuition, in order imaginatively put ourselves others’ places, (b) associate imagined intuitional with concepts others use conv...