Sentimentalism in philosophy and sentimentalism in literature are sometimes hard to distinguish. He opposed overt sentimentalism, celebration of human perfection and utopian thinking of romanticism. Philosophically, sentimentalism was often contrasted to rationalism. The latter role brought upon him a large amount of media sentimentalism and sensationalism. It celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism and sensibility. It celebrates the emotional and intellectual concepts of sentiment, sentimentalism, and sensibility. Nevertheless, concern for the well-being of animals had to be purged from anthropomorphism and sentimentalism. Simon Blackburn and Allan Gibbard endorse a non-cognitivist form of sentimentalism. Such a brusque dismissal also expressed the artist's distancing himself from sentimentalism. This feeling became the hallmark of sentimentalism. Sadoul dismisses it for excess of sentimentalism. Some see the origin of this sentimentalism in "colonial tragedy". Everything reminding of Chopin's sentimentalism was as well to be put aside. The Ultraist movement agreed with other avant-garde movements in its elimination of sentimentalism. In continental Europe, one aspect of sentimentalism was "Empfindsamkeit".