Talk:Romantic epistemology

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Oppose deletion[edit]

Regarding the proposal for deletion, I am a bit perplexed. The topic is an important one regarding an important aspect of Romanticism, and in particular the role of the main English thinker/philosopher behind the Romantic movement. There are various citations from third sources, as well as from Coleridge himself and his works, the focus of the topic, but an article of this nature also is complex and cannot be easily packaged. All topics involving certain ideas require a different approach from issues that are more straight forward. There are many other lengthy articles on Wikipedia involving ideas and concepts. Could you provide some guidance as to what the difference is between an 'article' and an 'essay"?Rudi (talk) 10:03, 3 June 2013 (UTC)rudi[reply]

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Suggested Edits for Article[edit]

To the author of this article,

Hello and thank you. This is an interesting and often abstruse topic, and I commend you for tackling it so thoroughly.

I have a few brief suggestions that I think would make the article more readable:

1) Give the reader a sense of how the different elements of Coleridge's thought hang together. As there are many such elements - eg. Imagination, Nous, Reason - it was very easy to get bogged down in the dense discussion of each one. I suggest tightening up the individual explanations of each of these terms, so that rather than each being an end or mini essay in itself, it is part of a clear bigger picture of Coleridge's method or schema. As a reader I often felt lost in the weeds of what is obviously a complex topic.

2) Provide very frequent citations. While there is an admirable number of quotes and references scattered around this long article, there are many long explanations of terms where no reference is provided. I am interested in doing my own reading on this topic, but I often didn't know which of your sources (listed at the end) you were drawing from for each lengthy explanation, whether primary, secondary, or your own take. It's unclear to me how wide is the body of Coleridge's writings on these topics, something that would be very good to know at the outset. Again, knowing from which secondary or primary source you're drawing from in explaining each key concept would be helpful for my own reading.

That's it! Thank you again for your article. Good job and I hope you continue to hone your Wikipedia skills to be the superstar philosophy writer you obviously are.

135.23.185.188 (talk) 07:26, 17 November 2019 (UTC) Josh[reply]

Unreadable[edit]

This article has rather confusingly labeled and repetitive, overlapping sections and is not understandable to the average reader. 149.125.101.170 (talk) 21:03, 18 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hume[edit]

Hume is presented as an Idealist and an anti-materialist in this article. In his life he was best defined as a skeptical materialist, far from and idealist. I believe Kant should be substituted for Hume throughout this article. 71.90.221.2 (talk) 11:03, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]