Entertainment / Literature / Radical Innocence: The Romantics valued innocence as something pure, wholesome, fulfilling, natural, and individualistic. They saw it as antithetical to the corrupting influence of civilized conformity and the heartless, mechanized, industrialized, materialistic society of the Enlightenment. As Emerson put it, 'the simple genuine self against the whole world' was the movement of the Romanticism, and radical innocence was its essence. The state of innocence was thought to be the ideal one for humanity. Radical innocence was the ability of an adult to maintain a child-like sense of wonder, faith, and goodness in spite of being aware of the cruelties, injustices, and heartaches of the world. The term has become something of a catchphrase in modernist and postmodernist writings. See for instance, Yeats' quotation below: Considering that, all hatred driven hence, The soul recovers radical innocence And learns at last that it is self-delighting, Self-appeasing, self-affrighting, And that its own sweet will is Heaven's will. --William Butler Yeats, 'A Prayer for My Daughter' (1920)
Search Google for Radical Innocence:
Radical Noun Synonyms: extremist, revolutionary, fanatic(al), militant, anarchist(ic), immoderate
Radical Adjective Synonyms: extremist, revolutionary, fanatic, zealot, immoderate, anarchist, militant
Radical Verb Synonyms: basic, fundamental, elementary, inherent, constitutional, elemental, essential, cardinal, principal, primary, deep, deep-seated, profound, underlying, organic, natural, rudimentary
MORE
Entertainment / Literature / Radical Innocence: The Romantics valued innocence as something pure, wholesome, fulfilling, natural, and individualistic. They saw it as antithetical to the corrupting influence of civilized conformity and the heartless MORE
Science / Astrology / Radical Position: The position a planet occupies in a natal horoscope. MORE
Science / Astrology / Radical Chart: The natal horoscope. In horary astrology, the term radical applies to a chart deemed readable by virtue of the Ascendant being greater than 3?° and less than 27?° in any sign. MORE