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Human Understanding: Romantic vs Classical
Romantic
- Immediate artistic appearance
- World in terms of its surface appearance
- Predisposed towards emotions and intuitions
- Motorcycle riding is a romantic experience
- Avoid understanding technology
- Following manufacturer instructions, trust in experts
- Waiting for temperature to warm up, optimizing comfort
- Pack as necessary
- Eastern affinity for the aesthetic
- “Hip”
- Aversion to technology produced by classic reason
Classical
- Focused on scientific reasoning
- World in terms of its underpinning structures
- Predisposed to logic and the scientific method
- Motorcycle maintenance is more of a classic task
- Understanding technology, how things work
- Improvising parts, instead of manufacturer instructions
- Keep riding, despite temperature, optimize time
- Keeping detailed lists
- Order the universe in a rational, economical way
- Seen as dull and joyless
- Western affinity for the theoretic
- “Square”