On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. For the American cultural magazine, see Sentimentalist Magazine. This sentimental valentine’s day gifts for boyfriend possibly contains original research. Sentimentality originally indicated the reliance on feelings as a guide to truth, but in current usage the term commonly connotes a reliance on shallow, uncomplicated emotions at the expense of reason.
Sentimentalism in philosophy is a view in meta-ethics according to which morality is somehow grounded in moral sentiments or emotions. A sentimentalist”, Oscar Wilde wrote, “is one who desires to have the luxury of an emotion without paying for it. In James Joyce’s Ulysses, Stephen Dedalus sends Buck Mulligan a telegram that reads “The sentimentalist is he who would enjoy without incurring the immense debtorship for a thing done. By the close of the century, however, a reaction had occurred against what had come to be considered sentimental excess, by then seen as false and self-indulgent—especially after Schiller’s 1795 division of poets into two classes, the “naive” and the “sentimental”—regarded respectively as natural and as artificial.
