verdant71.bsky.social
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@verdant71.bsky.socialRawls actually imo carries part of this legacy, its seen in his more overtly historical works.
Show Postincluded reason as a core component of practical decision-making. None of the Romantics were anti-Kantian, they simply thought that respect for reason *required* a wholeness of the person that required the cultivating effects of appropriate passions
Show PostPolitical liberalism as a self-descriptor was explicitly developed by two people who wanted to challenge the perceived inhumane rationalism of the French Revolution with the consideration for the human passions characteristic of German Romanticism! (which, for all the classical Romantics,
Show Posttheres a reason the EU chose as its anthem something by schiller and not voltaire
Show Postthe poets are, as always, a better gauge than the thinkers. i know what side shelley was on.
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