The Roots of Romanticism

Borrowed from Isiah Berlin

In Search of a Definition Chapter one

My Friend, My Friend

Dangerous and confused subject

That dark cave

Footsteps lead in one direction

Uncoiling

Dissimilarities rather than similarities

Tear human hearts from their minds

A passionate protest against universality

A problem in understanding what happened

Breakthrough of emotionalism

Live and Live

Collision, unavoidable collision

• Not due to error

• Conflict of an unavoidable kind

• Loose elements wandering the world

• Values which cannot be reconciled

Away from the notion that there are universal truths

Song of Eurydice

On to chapter two

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