No Feeling without Cognition. Moses Mendelssohn’s Analysis of Pleasant Sentiments in The Briefe Über Die Empfindungen
Guillem Sales Vilalta Abstract Mendelssohn’s second work, the Briefe über die Empfindungen (Letters on Sentiments), has mainly to do with sentiments experimented by human subjects. Nevertheless, the generalist, broad scope of the title might bring about some confusion: the work is not devoted to sentiments in general, but to sentiments of pleasure in particular. … [Read more…]