
Some Sources of Romanticism: 2 – The First Attack on Enlightenment
Isaiah Berlin
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What Did Men Really Want?
Voltaire thought that men wanted happiness and peace. But this is not what they ultimately sought, he said. What men wanted was to create - if it led to clashes then so be it. The sciences would lead to a kind of fearful bureaucratization, Voltaire feared. For him creation was an ineffable personal act by which human being laid his stamp on nature.
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