tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post2249410662472379952..comments2011-06-23T23:46:42.707-04:00Comments on Random Rants: Welcome to Romanticism!Janethttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17014052381082677120noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-12037290319469130962009-12-05T13:01:26.736-05:002009-12-05T13:01:26.736-05:00I think we are all born with sin nature in us. How...I think we are all born with sin nature in us. How we react to that nature is greatly influenced by our culture and parents. Things that are considered bad in one culture may be ok in other cultures.<br />-Katy SimpkinsAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-56287054579727542792009-10-30T11:47:36.304-04:002009-10-30T11:47:36.304-04:00You know, I thought of that during the class lectu...You know, I thought of that during the class lecture. The American Revolution was based in a lot of the Enlightenment's philosophy, then check out this Romantic philosophy in France. Now notice how the two revolutions turned out. I'm sorry Mr. Rousseau, but you must be blind and deaf to think people are inherently good and function best in their "natural" state. It almost sounds like he wants us to de-evolve and be animals again. Maybe I'm just fired up and jumping to conclusions, but really now! However... Romantic literature is a lot more fun to read than the period before. So, I will keep my peace. <br /><br />-Kayla HarlessAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-14626156053849947482009-10-28T08:49:44.165-04:002009-10-28T08:49:44.165-04:00You know, I think Rousseau was a kind of utopian t...You know, I think Rousseau was a kind of utopian thinker before that got popular. He really believed that people could be like-minded enough to form a consistent government. And he was living in FRANCE, for Pete's sake. Apparently he wasn't paying much attention.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014052381082677120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-43572903744079862009-10-27T19:05:11.644-04:002009-10-27T19:05:11.644-04:00Genny said...
I can’t help but to get frustrated ...Genny said...<br /><br />I can’t help but to get frustrated with Rousseau. I mean come on, “the only legitimate government is one that has the universal approval of the governed, acting according to their aggregate wishes.” I mean he is nuts! Was he locked in a closet his whole life? I mean come on, must have hated that women were beginning to get some rights, and especially that people were thinking they deserved them. But, just think if he was alive now, he would think we all went off our rocker. I mean “us” having a government that everyone approved of…ha-ha wouldn’t that just make life so much easier. Even looking back to the beginning of America, I don’t think we have had a single government that everyone was happy with except when maybe Washington was president.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-5414614698835966632009-10-27T08:08:32.729-04:002009-10-27T08:08:32.729-04:00Corbin, you're exactly right about the debt we...Corbin, you're exactly right about the debt we owe to European civilization; we do not eat raw meat and sleep in trees. But Rousseau saw even in beds and cooking the "decadence" of civilization. And Suz, he would not have said that nature is "kind" -- that's Emerson. He would have said that nature is pure, in the sense that it's true to itself. I still think it's bushwa, but it's a little more understandable that way.Janethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17014052381082677120noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-45458020301099415172009-10-26T22:38:01.098-04:002009-10-26T22:38:01.098-04:00How could he know? The second he gets around an In...How could he know? The second he gets around an Indian doesn't that Indian immediately become "blighted."<br /><br />And let's all be honest... "savages" are most certainly not any different from the rest of the human race. If anything, they've got survival traits driven into them all over and, despite whatever rosy colored glasses the romantics like to look out of, nature is not kind. It does not favor the traits what we like to think make us "human." I refer to the softer emotions of love, honesty, compassion, etc. It's survival of the fittest and group think and preservation does not fit in. The weak get left behind or weeded out, the strong take advantage. That's how nature works.Suzannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8253816090204094210.post-9858668296578509352009-10-26T20:10:32.310-04:002009-10-26T20:10:32.310-04:00Corbin Mack
"The truly noble, honest human i...Corbin Mack<br /><br />"The truly noble, honest human is the savage, whose life has not been blighted by European culture."<br /><br />Unfortunately, I disagree with the previous statement. Though I do believe that majority of things in life are a conbination of nuture and nature, our European culture in which we orginated from depicts the exact traits we pride most. Our vast advancements in the human race our based upon the values and stand points we have learned from those very places.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com