1. “ The moral sentiments arguments of the Scottish Enlightenment thinkers,” Joan C. Tronto observes, “represent the `losing' side in moral thinking in the eighteenth century”; Joan C. Tronto, Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (New York: Routledge, 1993), 36.
2. Ibid., par. 3.2.2.14, 317. This psychological holism is common to most Enlightenment sentimentalists, and is especially prominent in Herder's work. “The thought processes of our mind are undivided entities,” Herder writes, “producing in their totality the diverse effects or manifestations which we treat as separate faculties”; J. G. Herder, J. G. Herder on Social and Political Culture, trans. and ed. F. M. Barnard (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1969), 259. If we sometimes speak of the faculties of the human mind as separate entities, Herder explains, it is only as a philosophical abstraction, “because our weak spirit was unable to consider them all at once”; J. G. Herder, Herder: Philosophical Writings, trans. and ed. Michael N. Forster ( New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002), 83.