Oleg Lvovich 10-31-07
IH 52 G.Walsh
Paper II: The Romantic Philosophy
Toward the end of the eighteenth-century, Romanticism emerged as a response to the “classic” enlightenment way of thinking which is referred to as “Classicism”. Even though this change was gradual, it transformed everything from art and philosophy and even science. While the Classicists thought of the world as having a rigid and firm structure, the romanticists thought of the world as a place to express their ideas and beliefs (testing the boundaries of classic enlightenment thinkers. The Romanticists and Classicists differed in their views of the relationship between an individual and society, their views of nature and the relationship between reason and imagination.
Classicists and Romanticists differed in their views of nature. Classicism was based on the idea that nature and human nature could be understood by reason and thought. Classicist believed that nature was an independent machine, whose laws of operation could be logically understood. On the other hand, Romanticists ...