There was no Prussian bastion to stop the Scotsman's swift conquest of the territory once claimed by reason. Frederick C. Beiser More Quotes by Frederick C. Beiser More Quotes From Frederick C. Beiser The idea of romanticising the world goes back to the idea of creating a harmonious whole where the individual will feel at one with himself, others and nature. Frederick C. Beiser creating world ideas The romantics were reacting against a modern culture that divided individuals from themselves (through specialisation in the division of labor), from others (the competitive market place) and from nature, which had been reduced down to a machine through technology. The antidote to such division is unity and wholeness, which means feeling at home again in the world. Frederick C. Beiser technology home mean When Hume insists that taste is a matter of delicacy, that it is a matter of having a sensitivity to features of an object itself, he is very close to the rationalist doctrine. Hume was really a covert objectivist (or partial one) about aesthetic pleasure because that pleasure had to be based on the sensitivity to features in the object. Frederick C. Beiser delicacy doctrine matter
