Moral Romanticism Quotes in The Road to Character
Like the nation’s founders, [Eisenhower] built his politics on distrust of what people might do if they have unchecked power […] [He] felt in his bones that man is a problem to himself.
The realists believed in cultivation, civilization, and artifice; the romanticists believed in nature, the individual, and sincerity.
If you believe that the ultimate oracle is the True Self inside, then of course you become emotivist—you make moral judgements on the basis of feelings that burble up. Of course you become a relativist. One True Self has no basis to judge or argue with another True Self. Of course you become an individualist, since the ultimate arbiter is the authentic self within and not any community standard or external horizon of significance without.
Moral Romanticism Term Timeline in The Road to Character
