When1: 1750
When2: 1830
Who: Romanticism
What: philosophy
Where: Europe
Detail: Romanticism emphasized heroism, emotion, power, duty, revolution, and self-sacrifice. Sympathy, sensibility, and sensitivity were the paramount feelings. Beauty and feeling were more important than utility. Romanticism was anti-commercial and anti-industrial. Romanticism emphasized concrete not abstract, various not uniform, infinite not finite, nature not civilization, organic not mechanical, freedom not duty or law, individual not average, genius not hard-working, culture not international, feeling not thought, emotion not reason, imagination not ordinary, and intuition not deduction.
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