Thinking Activity: Culture and Anarchy

                               






                                               

Critique	Key point	How to understand it?
Culture	Study of perfection Harmonious expansion of human capacities	In the introduction to his essay, Arnold clearly mentioned that the Culture is the study of perfection, a harmonious perfection, idealistic to relate with contemporary happenings, the best which has been thought and said in the world.
Sweetness and Light	Honeybee and spider	The central and the happy idea, Seeing the things as they are of the essential character of human perfection
Doing as One Likes	Liberty thoughtless,	anarchy represents the absence of a guiding principle in one’s life which prevents one from striving to attain perfection.
Barbarians, Philistines, Populace	The Aristocrats with Individualism, The Middle Class, The working-class people.	According to Arnold, the Philistines are middle-class people. Generally, they are shopkeepers, worldly-wise men, captains of industry busy in trade and commerce.they have personal liberty, money, mainly involved in archaic traditions and gluttony, irresponsible towards other classes. The working class who help
Hebraism, Hellenism	Hebrew language, the Greek tradition, Spontaneity,	Their application to a contemporary society which leads to an ideal society. there must be a perfect balance of Hebraism and Hellenism in culture. In England, we find both moral and Intellectual awareness sharpened by Reformation and Renaissance. that is reason leads towards chaos and anarchy.
Poro Unum est. Necessarium	Strictness of rule	Arnold warns us of the besetting blindness of fanaticism either in culture or religion. Now culture diffuses Sweetness and light and religion, fire and strength.
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