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    Romanticism: Be Naturally Unique Ralph Waldo Emerson once said‚ “to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.” The people from the Romanticism period in Europe during the nineteenth century would strongly agree with Emerson’s words. Romantics thought it was important to be different and unique. Romantics are: Sensitive‚ emotional‚ prefer color to form‚ the exotic to the familiar‚ [are] eager for…adventure…of fantasy‚ [are] insistent

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    For this lesson‚ for chapter 6‚ I will describe philosopher Immanuel Kant’s integration of both philosophical beliefs of rationalism and empiricism‚ and why both “experience and reason” are important for “…constructing our knowledge of the world” (Chaffee‚ 6.5‚ Immanuel Kant (1724-1804)). Kant wanted to bring together both the different thought schools of rationalism and empiricism because he believed people could not have one without the other; we can’t have reason without experience and vice versa

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    Romanticism Romanticism. An artistic and ideological movement in literature‚ art‚ and music and a world view which arose toward the end of the 18th century in Germany‚ England‚ and France. In the beginning of the 19th century it spread to Russia‚ Poland‚ and Austria‚ and in the mid-19th century it encompassed other countries of Europe as well as North and South America. Romanticism‚ which appeared after the French Revolution in an environment of growing absolutism at the turn of the 19th century

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    RESEARCH HUMANITIES FINAL PAPER -1789-1887 Romanticism has very little to do with things popularly thought of as "romantic‚" although love may occasionally be the subject of Romantic art. Rather‚ it is an international artistic and philosophical movement that redefined the fundamental ways in which people in Western cultures thought about themselves and about their world. Romanticism‚ first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800 The early Romantic period thus coincides with

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    The basic definition of empiricism is that the philosophy that all knowledge originates in sensory experience. The definition of Rationalism is the epistemological theory that reason is either the sole or primary source of knowledge; in practice‚ most rationalists maintain merely that at least some truths are not known solely on the basis of sensory experience. Plato which suggested within the "Cave Theory" which showed a group of Prisoners is placed so they can see‚ on the wall of the cave‚ only

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    1.What is epistemology and why does it matter? Epistemology is the study of knowledge. It matters because without a firm foundation for knowledge‚ every academic endeaver begins to collapse. 3. What is Rationalism? Rationalism is the part of philosophy that our foundation for knowledge is found within reason. 4. Who are the three main Rationalists and where did they come from? Rene Descartes‚ Baruch Spinoza‚ Gottfried Leibniz. Descartes was French and from the Dutch Republic. Spinoza

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    Comparison of 4 short stories Throughout four of Washington Irving ’s short stories‚ characters manipulate the beliefs and superstitions of others for self-beneficence. A predominant sub-theme in these stories is romanticism. The four stories that will be discussed are "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"‚ "Rip Van Winkle"‚ "The Devil and Tom Walker"‚ and "The Spectre Bridegroom." There are clearly underlying aspects that seem to coincide in all of these stories. Though the author‚ Washington Irving‚ was mainly

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    Ichabod Crane‚ an Evidence of Puritan Morality Immerse in the American Literature Identity‚ a traditional theme of American Literature‚ renders evidence of the potent impact of Puritan morality after colonial times. In the year 1630‚ the Puritans came from England to establish a perfect community in the new land of the American continent. They brought with them iron like religious beliefs‚ which they wanted to keep pure‚ as a model‚ not like the flexible Church of England that was going through

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    Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) was an artistic‚ literary‚ and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1850. Partly a reaction to the Industrial‚ it was also a revolt against the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts

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    commonly known as romanticism. Romanticism can be commonly be defined primordially as a movement that flourished in Europe and America between the time periods of 1750 and 1870. Romanticism cannot be directly pinpointed back to its origin since it created out of the earliest form of human expression and innovation‚ its beginnings‚ artistic expression and time frame inspired by nature an awareness of the past‚ a religious spirit and an artistic ideal’’ quoted by ‘’(baron’s6). Romanticism is estimated to

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