Sense and Sensibility, novel by Jane Austen that was published anonymously in three volumes in 1811 and that became a classic. The satirical, comic work offers a vivid depiction of 19th-century middle-class life as it follows the romantic relationships of Elinor and Marianne Dashwood.

The main theme in this novel is the danger of excessive sensibility. Austen is concerned with the prevalence of the “sensitive” attitude in the romantic novel which, after the 1760s, turned to emphasizing the emotional and sentimental nature of people rather than, as before, their rational endowments.

There are some moral values found in “Sense and Sensibility” including positive and negative moral values. The positive moral values in the novel including calmness, responsible, 7ind and good understanding; the negative moral values are heartlessness, greedy, sly, odd, excessive sensibility, and tric7y.

Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings” (ref. 2, p. 34). In this essay, I will examine morality as a consequential attribute among those that determine “the difference of being human.” At issue, of course, stands the evolutionary origin of morality.

Our results show that we consider moral traits so important in others, in part, because a person’s morality can benefit us in some way. Moral traits have social value. From an adaptive perspective, moral traits signal to us whether we should approach or avoid and whether we should affiliate with that person.

Hume can be taken as an arch sentimentalist, and Kant as an arch rationalist. Sentimentalism takes six primary forms: expressivism, quasi-realism, dispositionalism, fitting-attitude views, reference-fixing views and rational sentimentalism.

The Moral Sense. the search for what it means to live a just and ethical life. The Anagogical Sense. investigates realities and events in terms of their eternal significance.

Terms in this set (18)

• literal sense.
• spiritual sense.
• 3 sub-categories of spiritual sense.
• moral sense (aka tropological)
• allegorical sense (aka typical)
• anagogical sense.
• (not on quiz) allegory: in the scripture, when two things are consubstantial…

The literal sense is the sense in which the author, through his words (voces) signifies certain realities (res). On the other hand, the spiritual senses are those in which the author, through the realities signified by the words (res) signifies other realities (res). Summa Theologiae I q.

Themes

• Freedom and Confinement.
• Family and Community.
• The Rise of Civilization.
• Stubbornness.
• The Covenant.
• Law and Society.
• Reputation.

a going out; a departure or emigration, usually of a large number of people: the summer exodus to the country and shore. the Exodus, the departure of the Israelites from Egypt under Moses.

What are the two main events in the Book of Exodus? the deliverance of the Israelites from slavery in Egypt, and the Sinai covenant of the Ten Commandments given to them at Mt. Sinai.