Name
of the Project: The Romantic Reaction to the
Enlightenment
The Romantics' Respond to the Enlightenment on SEVEN Points
1. The universe is not orderly in human sense: we
impose our sense of orderliness
Many aspects of the universe
will always appear chaotic
2. There are no universal laws, simply laws that
dominate until a paradigm shift occurs
3. Religion may have oppressed, but it also liberated
4. People may have ‘equal rights’ in a human sense,
but in another sense all things have ‘rights' & another sense, there
are no ‘rights;’
5. Rights are only human conventions:
Do lions & antelope have
rights?
6. Universe is too complicated & large to be
knowable: we can know some of the ‘laws’ w/in our sphere
7. Can society be improved? through "education"
& "romantic development" but concept of progress itself must be questioned
as another human convention
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