HIST 121 Lecture 6: W6 Enlightenment Rejected
7 Mar 2017
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A rejection of the triumph of reason : a three-pronged attack: Romanticism, irrationalism, & perspectivism: a (quick) summary of enlightenment thought. Accessible (in some way) to human intellect. The systems of locke, descartes, & bacon: liberalism & progress as the definer of human affairs. I cannot send you my explanation of the word romantic because it would be. Privileged the imagination & emotion higher than reason. Sought solace in or reconciliation with the natural world. God/the divine immanent in nature and/or the human soul. Wednesday, february 15, 2017: the urge for holistic individualism & the community, the rise of the volk: the influence of g. w. Herder: the nation: a people bounded together by shared history & culture. Reason separate from imagination: the validation of emotion as part of the human experience. Emancipation from the tyranny of excessive intellectualizing. Emphasis on feeling & sympathy in opposition to reason as basis for moral &
