This view, broadly scientific but flavored with a Platonic sense of a world of order behind the chaos of sense impressions, was challenged by the Romantic poets (such as Blake and Wordsworth) and Romantic philosophers. They emphasized the plasticity of the world and especially the esemplastic power of the human imagination.
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This view, broadly scientific but flavored with a Platonic sense of a world of order behind the chaos of sense impressions, was challenged by the Romantic poets (such as Blake and Wordsworth) and Romantic philosophers. They emphasized the plasticity of the world and especially the esemplastic power of the human imagination. Institutional constraints they despised along with all other limits on human aspiration, as merely contingent; science they found dreary; they celebrated potency — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 23 (
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Kant asked and answered the fundamental question of his philosophy, “How is nature possible?” He could do so only because nature for him was nothing but the representation of nature. It was so not merely in the sense that “the world is my representation” and that we can therefore speak of nature too as only a content of consciousness, but also in the sense that what we call nature is the special way in which the mind assembles, orders, and shapes sense perceptions. … In their immediate givenness, Kant held, the elements of the world do not have the interdependence which alone makes them intelligible as the unity of nature’s laws. It is this interdependence which transforms the world fragments—in themselves incoherent and unstructured—into nature. — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167 (
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Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Romantics challenged mechanical worldview by celebrating imagination — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 23; German idealism’s elevation of imagination grounded the Romantic artist as prophetic seer.; The Romantic self is constituted through successive contrasting experiences — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 540 (+2 more)
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- Romantics challenged mechanical worldview by celebrating imagination (similarity 0.90)
- Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions (similarity 0.80)
Broader Connections
- Romantics challenged mechanical worldview by celebrating imagination
#corroborates(0.90) — Richard A. Posner, What Has Pragmatism to Offer Law?, 23 - Nature is constructed by the mind’s synthetic activity from raw sense perceptions
#corroborates(0.85) — Georg Simmel, on individuality and social forms_…, 167 - German idealism’s elevation of imagination grounded the Romantic artist as prophetic seer.
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