ABSTRACT
This chapter reconstructs and assesses Alexander Pfander's discussion of sentiments in the later period after giving a summary of Pfander's early view on feelings. In his early work Einführung in die Psychologie, Pfander mentions the following examples of feelings: Feelings of pleasure/displeasure, joy, annoyance, moods of feeling, aesthetic feelings, feelings of sympathy/antipathy, and feelings of satisfaction/dissatisfaction. According to Pfander, therefore, feelings, as such, are intrinsic states of their subjects, which have nothing to do with external objects. Even though Pfander holds that feelings as such are intrinsic states of subjects, he does not make them totally unrelated to objects outside of those subjects. Pfander’s initial characterization of sentiments points to three features of those experience: their embeddedness between subjects and objects, centrifugal direction toward objects, and centrifugal streaming from subjects toward objects.
