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Question 6: Select one or more thinkers and/or writers associated with Romanticism and explain how they understand the relationship between the self and the world.
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EUR1200: European Culture and Ideas: Modernity and Romanticism Catherine Wyatt 19453175 Question 6: Select one or more thinkers and/or writers associated with Romanticism and explain how they understand the relationship between the self and the world. Selection: Charles Darwin CHARLES DARWIN Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882), British scientist and naturalist, has undoubtedly made a vast impact on humanity during the Romanticism period until today. Darwin was the precursory figure perhaps most responsible for altering humanity's view of nature and human nature, over the past two centuries. Darwin best recognized belief, that species evolved over time by means of natural selection, has been profoundly influential throughout the modern world. His thoughts, when publicized in the mid 19th century Romanticism period onwards, were received with some upheaval by scientists and especially from religious opponents. The claims by Darwin in his writings 'The Origin of Species' and even more so 'The Descent of Man' clashed with the word of the...
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