Psychotherapy: Sensationalists, Rationalists, and Romantics

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1. How these epistemologies impact ethics and morals? Particularly with the romantics, you begin to notice there is a potential to separate ethics, or what is right, from values, or the individual's ideals. What do you think is the significance of this separation?

- Romanticism may be defined as a pattern of thoughts, attitudes and beliefs associated with a movement in the arts as a way of answering questions men faced about the world (Campbell. 1983).
- From this perspective it affected all of Western Europe from 1750-1850 coinciding with the Industrial revolution.
- Romanticism was considered as a set of values biases, opting for feelings over cognition, reason, imagination over intellect. It. It was a movement which affected all the countries of Western Europe, especially France, Germany and England roughly in the century 1750-1850, a period which, it is important to note, coincides with the critical stage of the industrial revolution. Thus, romanticism can be considered as a distinct set of value biases and feelings over cognition; and imagination over intellect (Campbell, 1983, PP. 284-285).
- Romanticism was a reaction against the emphasis placed upon reason and science during The Enlightenment Period (Campbell, 1983).
- Romanticism was a rejection of classicism and the changing industrial and commercial world.
- The era of Romanticism emphasized such themes as the priority of feelings, the cult of the individual, a renewed appreciation for matters such as: (a) nature and the primitive, (b) the exploration of the unconscious and (c) a fascination with the supernatural (Abrams, 1971 as cited in Romanticism).
- Romantics were united in their opposition to the industrial revolution and its effects, "which they nearly all viewed as disastrous.
- They were more fundamentally were opposed to doctrines and modes of ...