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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Page 58
Before he had defined virtue , Greece abounded in virtuous men . ... From the
womb of the most furious fanaticism was heard the highest wisdom , and the
simplicity of the most heroic virtues lent honor to the vilest of all peoples . The
death of ...
Before he had defined virtue , Greece abounded in virtuous men . ... From the
womb of the most furious fanaticism was heard the highest wisdom , and the
simplicity of the most heroic virtues lent honor to the vilest of all peoples . The
death of ...
Page 68
And why do you believe that I should be rewarded for virtues I possess through
no merit of my own , and punished for criminal acts over ... Nature ' s mastery lies
precisely in the perfect balance which she maintains between virtue and crime .
And why do you believe that I should be rewarded for virtues I possess through
no merit of my own , and punished for criminal acts over ... Nature ' s mastery lies
precisely in the perfect balance which she maintains between virtue and crime .
Page 99
It is virtue : I am speaking of public virtue , which brought about so many wonders
in Greece and Rome , and which must produce even more astounding ones in
republican France : of that virtue that is none other than love of the fatherland and
...
It is virtue : I am speaking of public virtue , which brought about so many wonders
in Greece and Rome , and which must produce even more astounding ones in
republican France : of that virtue that is none other than love of the fatherland and
...
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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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