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Sensibility

Overview

Sensibility refers to an acute perception of or responsiveness toward something, such as the emotions of another. This concept emerged in eighteenth-century Britain, and was closely associated with studies of sense perception as the means through which knowledge is gathered. It also became associated with sentimental moral philosophy.

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Philosophers who discussed Sensibility

• Michel Henry

Related ideas

• Emotion
• An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
• John Locke
• Hysteria
• Perception
• Revolution
• Samuel Johnson
• A priori and a posteriori
• Ethics

Place in the tradition

Part of Romanticism.

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