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In an extreme Enlightenment Worldview, people live as parts of a machine. Philosophers, such as, Rene Descartes, John Locke, and David Hume, attempted to fix the problem of Skepticism by finding Certain Knowledge. In the movie, Wit, it shows dehumanisation as an error of the Enlightenment Worldview. Dr. Vivian Bearing, a former poetry professor, treated her students poorly by never forming relationships with them or caring for them as individuals. When it flashes back to one of her students requesting for a longer due date because of the loss of his grandmother, she has not sympathy and refuses to change it for him. One of her students from that class, Jason Posner, is now her cancer doctor. Because of the way Dr. Bearing treated her students, …show more content…

Philosopher, Immanuel Kant, combines rationalism and empiricism by stating that knowledge comes from humans experiences of the external world and their reason in their mind. In the movie, Dead Poets Society, it represents an error of having no rules. Mr Keating, a new teacher at Welton Academy, teaches his students to be more individual and free thinkers. Since Welton reflects a structured society, Mr. Keating wants his students to follow their dreams. One of his students, Neil Perry, did not see the point of when it is too far. When his father told him to stop pursuing his dream of acting, Neil does not listen. Once his father is aware of Neil’s disobedience he tells him he is sending him to military school. Neil kills himself that night because he believes there is no purpose for him. Neil showed themes of the Romanticism Worldview when having no rules or boundaries. He showed Rejection of Authority and Individual. When Rejecting Authority, it is using knowledge from past experiences and in Neil’s mind of continuously following rules that he did not want in his journey of success. Individual is shown when he is pushed by his peers and Mr. Keating to try out for something he loved which is acting. Although multiple people stick to what they knew is safe, like staying at Welton without disobeying, Neil wanted to “contribute his own verse to the

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