PSYC85H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Zeitgeist, Deductive Reasoning
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Psyc85: midterm material: the enlightenment of 17th and 18th centuries emphasized human experience (the english empiricists) and reasoning (the german and french rationalists, monarchy and church is being broken down, observations become ideas. Example: empiricists: observe dog and critically reflect (conscious) old dog (idea) Example: rationalists: not always reflecting(semi-unconscious) but we can imagine things we"ve never seen (i. e. Purple dragon: some innate knowledge and deductive reasoning (i. e. German romanticism: conflict between rationalists and empiricists coincided with a repudiation of the enlightenment ideal of reasoning by the romantic movement, rationalists and empiricists agreed that: get in the way of observation and reasoning) Reasoning is important and emotions are useless (they: german romanticism encourage emotions believed it gave a lot of insight. Johann wolfgang von goethe (1749 1832: goethe"s criticism of new science : scientific approach (such an approach follows the footsteps of physics) Not opposed to science, but claimed that there are limits to the: certain human attributes transcend scientific understanding.
