Thinking Activity : Culture and Anarchy

Thinking Activity : Culture and Anarchy  


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  Here I am talking about culture and Anarchy and some key points and what I understanding about it. so my blog on culture and Anarchy. This task is given by Dr. Dilip Barad Sir,


Culture and Anarchy is a magazine essay by Matthew Arnold. "Culture is defined as the study of perfection with Anarchy. Culture and Anarchy is the great work of Matthew Arnold, published in 1869. Culture and anarchical essays were first published in the Cornhill Magazine in 1867-68. It contradicts Arnold's culture, which he defines as "the practice of perfection," in the prevailing mood of a new democracy in England at the time. The complete essay engages with culture as a great aid in our quest for perfection to know all the present problems and all things of the culture which concern us with the best.


His essays are divided into the following chapters:

1. What is culture?
2. Sweetness and light?
3. Doing as one likes - Anarchy
4. Barbarians,Philistines, Populace
5. Hebraism and Hellenism
6. Porro Unum est Necessarium
7. Our Liberal Practitioners

Let's talk about it in detail.......

Critique : 1

1. What is culture?

Key points :

1. The study of perfection
2. Innocent perfection, normal perfection.
3. Imagine a culture
4. A character of beauty and ingenuity


What I understand from it :

Culture is the study of perfection and harmonious perfection, the practice of ordinary perfection which is involved in becoming something. It's not static, it's changeable. It is a study of social and moral perfection. It is a study of innocent perfection. Innocent expansion of human capacity.

Critique : 2

1. Sweetness and light?

Key points :

1. Active intelligence
2. Critic of the historian and sociologist
3. Love for perfection
4. Sense of beauty


What I understand from it :

Sweetness and light are the main characters. A Critical Argument About Society. Sweetness is moral light is power and truth. Culture connects with the idea of ​​sweetness and light. Sweetness means the sense of beauty and light means active intelligence. Sweetness gives moral values. Sweetness and light try to show that culture is the study of the pursuit of perfection.

Critique : 3

1. Doing as one likes - Anarchy

Key points :


1. Personal liberty statements
2. Middle and working class
3. Freedom

 
  What I understand from it :


Matthew Arnold said that the freedom to do whatever we want in our society, to one another. Matthew Arnold said there is a balance between control and spontaneity. According to Matthew Arnold, the freedom you like is the one without the desire for freedom for the end.

Critique : 4

1. Barbarians,Philistines, Populace

Key points :


1. Personal freedom
2. Three classes
3. Middle class - helpless disorder
4. Class and defects.
5. Society of England Class systems

What I understand from it :

In this chapter Arnold divide into three classes Barbarianism, Philistines, and Populace are classes of England. he analyzes them with his qualities and drawbacks. It designates these three classes as an elite, middle and working class. Arnold says all three classes are happy with what they like. All three classes of individuals, who have the common human spirit to attain perfection. According to Matthew Arnold Aristrocraft, barbarism is called the middle class Philistines and the working class known as Populace.

Critique : 5

1. Hebraism and Hellenism


Key points :


1. The perfection of man
2. Hebraism - The Movement of Christianity
3. Hardness of consciousness and spontaneity of consciousness
4. Complimentary
5. Hellenism - movement of Renaissance



What I understand from it :


According to Matthew Arnold, Hebraism and Hellenism are the perfection of man.
they prefer to act rather than think. He rejected it because mankind is does not always think right, but it rarely comes into the process of logic and meditation. Hebraism and Hellenism are both praiseworthy. Hellenism is spontaneous and Hebraism is obedient and perfect balance is the purpose of culture.

Critique : 6

1. Porro Unum est Necessarium

Key points :

1. The tragedy of the era
2. The existence of democracy
3. Absence of some authority
4. Synchronous development


What I understand from it :


Arnold is important to us because Arnold's frequent insistence on revision is with Arnold. The need for a mass system of action beyond the notion of the existence of a Democrat in Neisserium. Arnold said that the harmonious development of our humanity, independent thinking on our routing nation and envisioning the liberal idea of ​​democratic existence as a free will the concept of freedom democracy.