Post-Enlightenment Culture: Decorum, History, Value.
'Religion says: The kingdom of God is within you; and culture, in like manner, places human perfection in an internal condition, in the growth and predominance of our humanity proper, as distinguished from our animality.'
(Matthew Arnold, Culture and Anarchy)
To what, in your opinion, does Matthew Arnold give primacy: 'culture' or 'religion'?
Arnold gives primacy to 'culture' in Culture and Anarchy, especially in the chapter entitled 'Sweetness and Light'. However, we must firstly decide what Arnold means by 'culture', a word that has so many connotations yet is so hard to define precisely. The difficulty inherent to this word is due to its relative nature. What one person ca
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