- First: started with talking about rationalism:
- What would a rationalist think about the PSATs?
- They would think they are important
- Love the idea of scores
- may reject the logic of the test itself
- What would a rationalist think about our class yesterday(going outside)?
- a WASTE of time
- mindless
- pointless
- a logical necessity for a student to have to go outside after 4 hours of testing.
- Second: American Romanticism
- Characteristics:
- values, feelings, intuition over reason (trust your emotions over logic)
- places faith in inner experience
- shuns (to reject) the artificially of civilization and seek unspoiled nature
- prefer youthful innocence of educated adults.
- Products of rationalism:
- political and social milestones:
- Louisianan Purchase
- gold rush
- education reform
- Industrial Revolution
- writers contemplate the positives and negatives of industrializing
These are my notes from our class period on 10/20/16, we just discussed the differences between a rationalist and romanticism. At the end of class we discussed how a romanticist would feel about religion (we did not take notes on this yet), they would feel having faith is good, but god itself is a lie. Hope this sums up and helps with what you may have missed.
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