What is Romanticism?

[@NatashaMilburnNovelist]

How elevating, like a march of the Romantics. Bravo Maestro!

[@DavidBergenStudio]

A video which actually, finally explains it clearly and unequivocally. To which I would add that any end product of any romantic gesture is always greater than the sum of its parts!

[@EvilDandy]

I remember watching The Libertine in the cinema, but honestly cannot remember a thing about it. Your comment touches on a very important distinction between Self and Ego. Jacque Barzun covers this in his book Classic, Modern, and Romantic with the Romantic being self-orientated and the Modern being egotistical. Likewise we might class feminism as solipsistic. The difference is the Romantic sees the self in relation to reality, but the egoist and solipsist sees reality in relation to the self.

[@SarumanDeWhite]

u have nice definitions for the four pillars!

[@EvilDandy]

@Johnny75416 Absolutely. Far too often when someone argues emotion over reason, what they are arguing for is THEIR emotion, and not emotion in general. The thing about emotions is that they are conditioned responses. The people we feel affinity with are those with the same, similar, or complimentary emotional programming as ourselves. Also, as any skilled manipulator knows, it is the heart strings that control the puppet.

[@EvilDandy]

@tuashiave Quite the contrary, the heart sees the least clearly. In psychology, this is called cognitive bias. You see what you want to see. I do not discount the role and importance of emotion, but it must always be subject to reason. Otherwise you find yourself in a state of self-delusion and call yourself enlightened.