Project: The Romantic Reaction to the Enlightenment
Your Mission, should you decide to accept it:
Answer the questions found below as a group
Hand in one answer with everyone's name
- 1st & last, in alphabetical order by last name
- Include only members who are present
Indicate the date:  ____________________ 		 Indicate the name of the class
Indicate the name of the Project
Be thorough; write good answers
Use your time wisely. 
Be finished by the end of the allotted time
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


1.  Do you agree w/ the Romantics or the Enlightenment Thinkers?  Explain.

2.  Even if you disagree w/ the Enlightenment thinkers, how might they respond to the Romantics? 

3.  Which view is more prevalent today, the Enlightenment view or the Romantic view?  Give examples to support your reasoning.

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