PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 46: Populares
9 May 2018
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Lecture 46
Enlightenment and Romanticism
• Enlightenment attempted moral systems based on rational science
• Enlightenment philosophers’ goal of a perfect society left little room
for historical (nonscientific) beliefs or diverse traditions
• In reaction, Romantic philosophers argued humans are more than
intellect ideas derived from experience – we also have instincts,
emotions & intuitions
• Romanticism taught necessity of understanding the total person, not
just rational powers and empiricism
• Enlightenment is also referred to as the Age of Reason.
1. Romanticism and existentialism criticized the Enlightenment
Philosophy.
a. Romanticism and existentialism were reactions to and criticisms
of the ideas of the philosophy of the Enlightenment.
2. Romantics and Existentialist both emphasized human emotion, the
importance of subjective experience, a deep respect for individuality,
a belief in free will, and a distrust of grandiose theories of human
nature created by the rationalists, empiricists, and sensationists, and
natural scientists.
Romanticisms
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