In Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance the author divides up human understanding into classical and romantic. I feel that the classical perspective tends to break things down to it's foundation in order to truly understand its function while the romantic point of view bases its understanding on outside appearances, what they see. Romantic looks at feelings and actions while classical analyzes and dissects. Personally I think I can fall into both categories it just all depends on the situation. In school I am often taught in Math classes to think classically to get to a specific answer, but if I am given a creative piece to do for English I think romantically to write my best work. When I first meet people I may base the person off what I see right in front of me and as time goes by really try to find out what kind of person they are. Honestly I agree that both are valid ways at looking at the world and therefore both needed to understand what's around you. Both offer different points of view of the world like the right and left side of your brain. The left side of your brain deals with mostly logic and facts, while the right uses more feelings and imagination. You need both perspectives to help better understand this world even though at times one becomes more dominate.
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Your explanation of classical vs romantic is good. I agree that you can apply each of them to different situations. But do you believe that you could apply both romantic and classical thinking to a certain situation? Or can you only apply one to each?
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