One can find several tensions, even inconsistencies, among the various representatives of each tendency. Enlightenment Characteristics Romantic Characteristics 1. Romantic poets, Naturphilosophie. All knowledge comes from reason and experience Science overlooks intuition, faith, and by scientific method, broadly speaking. British love of concrete experience.
Scientific knowledge can solve most any problem.
The most important problems are not scientific. Science is at best irrelevant to morality. Rational judgment is reducible to the application Wisdom and expertise are irreducible to rules. Frequent reduction of quality to quantity. Nature is fully intelligible to reason.