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[email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 011-441-903-620-772 DIOCESAN CIRCULAR – December 2011 PHILOSOPHY AND THE CATHOLIC CHRISTIAN – 42 Hegel and Schelling ‘With a course of thiamine chloride and some testosterone I could have made him as happy as a sand-boy. Has it ever struck you … what a lot of the finest romantic literature is the result of bad doctoring? ’ Aldous Leonard Huxley ‘ After Many a Summer ’ Part II, Ch. 6 When I came to teach the ‘German Romantic Philosophers in the Age of Enlightenment’, during a residential course on moral philosophy at St Bede’s Anglican Catholic Theological College, one of my quick witted students accused me of presuming to instruct them entirely on the basis of an oxymoron! Actually, ‘Romanticism’, as I use it here, refers to an intellectual and aesthetic phenomenon strongly identified with a particular school of German philosophers who were to exert a powerful influence on Western thought and culture in the eighteenth century.