From Enlightenment to Romanticism: Anthology, Part 1This is the first of two anthologies designed to accompany the Open University course From Enlightenment to Romanticism, an interdisciplinary exploration of the changes and transitions in European culture between 1780 and 1830. sources on the death of the Old Regime, the Napoleonic phenomenon, slavery, religion and reform. Each selection is accompanied by a detailed introduction explaining the context and siginficance of the sources.Extracts in the anthology stimulate questions rather than provide reassuring answers and offer insights into the major events, movements and personaities of the time. |
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I exist , and I have senses by which I am affected . This is ... Now , all that I sense
outside of me and which acts on my senses , I call matter ; and all the portions of
matter which I conceive to be joined together in individual beings , I call bodies .
I exist , and I have senses by which I am affected . This is ... Now , all that I sense
outside of me and which acts on my senses , I call matter ; and all the portions of
matter which I conceive to be joined together in individual beings , I call bodies .
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This passive being will sense each object separately , or it will even sense the
total object formed by the two ; but , having no force to bend them back on one
another , it will never compare them , it will not judge them . To see two objects at
...
This passive being will sense each object separately , or it will even sense the
total object formed by the two ; but , having no force to bend them back on one
another , it will never compare them , it will not judge them . To see two objects at
...
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Everything I perceive with the senses is matter ; and I deduce all the essential
properties of matter from the sensible ... As for me , I sense myself to be so
persuaded that the natural state of matter is to be at rest and that by itself it has no
force ...
Everything I perceive with the senses is matter ; and I deduce all the essential
properties of matter from the sensible ... As for me , I sense myself to be so
persuaded that the natural state of matter is to be at rest and that by itself it has no
force ...
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Contents
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Don Giovanni | 3 |
Faith and death in the late Enlightenment | 17 |
David Hume Of Suicide | 24 |
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