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This 4 page paper discusses the humanist views of William Wordsworth to the structuralists views of T.S. Eliot, Jonathan Culler and Michael Foucault. Quotes Cited from the text. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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and others were argued and pondered by social scientists in the early twentieth century. The arguments seem to have become divided into two camps: structuralists and humanists. Their argument seems
to hinge on the very definition of term subject. Humanist beliefs: Humanists think that science and reason provide the best basis for understanding the world around them, as well
as believing that moral values are founded on human empathy. Today, humanism refers to the personal worth of an individual and that individuals right to his own particular values, and
freedom from persecution by authorities for those views. William Wordsworth in his preface to the Lyrical Ballads addresses the idea of the term, subject by stating: "Humble and rustic life
was generally chosen, because, in that condition, the essential passions of the heart find a better soil in which they can attain their maturity, are less under restraint, and speak
a plainer and more emphatic language"(Wordsworth 2003). The subject, then, is the expression and ability of language to express more candidly the
essence of the human condition. He is saying, one would think, that the rustics and peasants who knew very little social pretense were more likely to yield a truer ability
to speak a plainer and more emphatic language. This, then, is at the heart of the divide between humanists, such as Wordsworth, and structuralists such as T.S. Eliot, Jonathan
Culler, and Michael Foucault. The issue dividing humanists and post-structuralists is the extent to which the "true purpose of language" can be achieved. Structuralists beliefs
Structuralists believed in the dichotomy of opposites to infuse meaning into language. For example, there is no concept of darkness without an understanding of what it means
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