THE ROMANTIC

ERA
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
 What is the Romantic Era?

• A period of changes
• Origin of the name
• Main themes
 THE SPIRIT OF THE ROMANTIC ERA

• Social differences and contrasts

• The importance of feelings and emotions
• A new idea of art
 THE FORERUNNER BLAKE
• Imagination as a means to reach the hidden truth
• 1° generation: love for nature
• 2° generation: rebellious spirit
• The birth of the Historical Novel
 PHILOSOPHY

• Criticism of Kant’s philosophy

• New methods of knowledge
• Sturm und Drang (1765-1785)
 GEORG HEGEL

• «What is real is rational and what is rational

is real»
• Hegel’s idealism
• Noumenon
 FRIEDRICH SCHELLING
• He studied theology at the Tubinger Stift
• He frequented the greatest exponents of the
Romantic Era
• He developed a polemical thought towards
Hegel’s idealism
 AESTHETIC PHILOSOPHY OF
IDEALISM NATURE

He reconciles criticism (which starts Nature is conceived as a

from the subject) with dogmatism life internally governed by
(which starts from the object) and both
a profound unity
aim at their point of union
THE ROMANCE
IN SCIENCE
SCIENCE AND PHILOSOPHY
 What is the Romance in science?

• An intellectual movement born

in Western Europe as a
counter-move to the
Enlightenment of the late
eighteenth century.
 Science

Romance
Enlightenment

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THANKS FOR THE ATTENTION!

WORK DONE BY:

Giuseppe Casafina
Davide Lavista
Francesco Di Tonno
Savino Martire