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Romanticism is a literary and philosophical theory which sees the individual at the center of all life and all experience. ...
One of the best studies of Romanticism is M. ... Using ideas set forth in Shelleys A Defence of Poetry as a starting point, Abrams notes that
the major Romantic poets shared "important themes, modes of expression, and ways of feeling and imagining;"
their writing was "part of a comprehensive intellectual tendency which manifested itself in philosophy as well as poetry;" and,
this tendency was, in part, the result of the "drastic political and social changes of the age." (11)
Kant, Immanuel (1724-1804)
Prussian philosopher. Kant is considered to be the paradigmatic philosopher of the Modern era, removing the last traces of scholasticism from philosophy in the eighteen century. ... Mathematics and philosophy, according to Kant, provide this last type.
Schleiermacher, Friedrich (1768-1834)
German theologian much influenced by Romanticism, and particularly important for his emphasis on the ‘God-consciousness’ of the believer, the immediate feeling of God’s living and working within us. ... This was not a philosophy designed to make the religiously conservative community around him very happy. ...
His First Philosophical Works (1662)
He moved in with Hermann Homan, and in the Homan cottage Spinoza began to write philosophy. ...
His Geometric Methodology
In most every respect Spinozas philosophy looks over its shoulder constantly at Descartes. ... " Like all Rationalists, Spinoza builds his system of philosophy not on anything that is verifiable by actual experimentation or any other "checking out" of his ideas in the actual world around us. ... " We know that our system of philosophy works if our original propositions are true. ... And he presumed to be able to build a better logical system of philosophy--by starting not with his own existence (as per Descartes) but with the proposition that (by definition) existence exists.
Approximate Word count = 2228
Approximate Pages = 8.9
(250 words per page double spaced)
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