romantic ideas to include

• view nature as permanent vs transience of man
• nature has agency and power over man
• gods power in nature
• nature as a manifestation of god (pantheism)
• viewing the child as sacred and closer to god and nature and therefore a pure form of humanity
• viewing society as a corrupting force
• urbanisation as a corruption of the natural world and its beauty
• rejecting the excessive rationality of enlightenment to embrace emotion and intuition as the most important experience
• the sublimity of nature
• nature provoking the desired extremities of emotion (terror awe trepidation)
• anti- establishmentarianism
• pursuit of art and beauty (aesthetic experience)
• rejects emprical knowledge associated with enlightenment
• a focus on spirituality (esp with nature) and the individual
• romanticisation of melancholy and isolation
• jean-jacques rousseu: man is born free but everywhere he is in chains