我思故我在 Age of Reason Rousseau: "Exister,pournous,c'est sentir" For us,to exist is to feel. 存在即合理 Age of Romanticism The leading romantic thinkers demonstrated a strong reaction against 10 the dominant modes of thinking of the 18th-century writers and philosophers. Romanticism actually constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world ofthe human spirit. Several centuries B.C.,Plato described humans as a careful balance of reason,passions,and appetites,with reason as the guide. The Age of Reason elevated reason,but perhaps suppressed passions too much For some,the emphasis on reason had gotten out of balance with the rest ofhuman nature. VI.The elements of Romanticism我思故我在 Age of Reason Rousseau: “Exister, pour nous, c’est sentir” For us, to exist is to feel. 存在即合理 Age of Romanticism The leading romantic thinkers demonstrated a strong reaction against the dominant modes of thinking of the 18th-century writers and philosophers. Romanticism actually constitutes a change of direction from attention to the outer world of social civilization to the inner world of the human spirit. Several centuries B.C., Plato described humans as a careful balance of reason, passions, and appetites, with reason as the guide. The Age of Reason elevated reason, but perhaps suppressed passions too much. For some, the emphasis on reason had gotten out of balance with the rest of human nature. VI. The elements of Romanticism 10’