Tuesday, February 25, 2020

Culture and anarchy








Culture
Study of perfection

Harmonious expansion of human capacities
In the introduction to his essay, Arnold clearly mentioned that the Culture is the study of perfection, a harmonious perfection, idealistic to relate with contemporary happenings, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
Sweetness and Light
Honeybee and spider  
The central and the happy idea, Seeing the things as they are of the essential character of human perfection
Doing as One Likes
Liberty thoughtless
anarchy represents the absence of a guiding principle in one’s life which prevents one from striving to attain perfection.
Barbarians, Philistines, Populace
The Aristocrats with Individualism,
The Middle Class,
The working-class people.Critique
Key point
How to understand it?
Culture
Study of perfection

Harmonious expansion of human capacities
In the introduction to his essay, Arnold clearly mentioned that the Culture is the study of perfection, a harmonious perfection, idealistic to relate with contemporary happenings, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
Sweetness and Light
Honeybee and spider  
The central and the happy idea, Seeing the things as they are of the essential character of human perfection 
Doing as One Likes
Liberty thoughtless,
anarchy represents the absence of a guiding principle in one’s life which prevents one from striving to attain perfection.
Barbarians, Philistines, Populace
The Aristocrats with Individualism,
The Middle Class,
The working-class people.
According to Arnold, the Philistines are middle-class people. Generally, they are shopkeepers, worldly-wise men, captains of industry busy in trade and commerce.they have personal liberty, money, mainly involved in archaic traditions and gluttony, irresponsible towards other classes. The working class who help
Hebraism, Hellenism
Hebrew language, the Greek tradition, Spontaneity,
Their application to a contemporary society which leads to an ideal society. there must be a perfect balance of Hebraism and Hellenism in culture. In England, we find both moral and Intellectual awareness sharpened by Reformation and Renaissance. that is reason leads towards chaos and anarchy.
Poro Unum est. Necessarium
Strictness of rule
Arnold warns us of the besetting blindness of fanaticism either in culture or religion. Now culture diffuses Sweetness and light and religion, fire and strength.
Our liberal Practitioners
According to Arnold, the Philistines are middle-class people. Generally, they are shopkeepers, worldly-wise men, captains of industry busy in trade and commerce.they have personal liberty, money, mainly involved in archaic traditions and gluttony, irresponsible towards other classes. The working class who help
Hebraism, Hellenism
Hebrew language, the Greek tradition, Spontaneity,
Their application to a contemporary society which leads to an ideal society. there must be a perfect balance of Hebraism and Hellenism in culture. In England, we find both moral and Intellectual awareness sharpened by Reformation and Renaissance. that is reason leads towards chaos and anarchy.
Poro Unum est. Necessarium
Strictness of rule
Arnold warns us of the besetting blindness of fanaticism either in culture or religion. Now culture diffuses Sweetness and light and religion, fire and strength.
Our liberal Practitioners





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