The Romantic Reaction to Kant

11:48 AM Fideism - You need a leap of faith to learn something beyond religion. Kant - Everything that isn't rational is evil. Johann Fichte - The world is a moral testing ground. A nation can be a person. When imagination fuses with rationality, you have the sense of sublime and transcedence. Romanticism - The intense desire to experience the unity of personhood, transcend dichotomies (congruence ) we need to meet reality. The creative, artistic, aschetic is how e can unify. We long for belonging. Expression is how you find out who you truly are. The unity between machinism and teleogoly, a caring vs. uncaring universe. The romantics are looking for a fusion. Is there a failure in romanticism to fail at congruence? The notion of the outsider: Someone who did not usually connect with the oridnary world. You should have the right to change the world if it doesn't speak to the human heart. It is better not to succeed in a wordly sense if you can have an inner sense of integrity.