[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Ah, that makes it clearer. You miss my point in asking for groups. There are no groups but individuals who have a Romantic outlook. Some groups may have more Romantics then others but Romanticism is a individual trait.

Ayn Rand is one. Pat Buchanan could be classified as another. Robert Heinlein would be a third. Although their philosophies are different in many ways their outlooks are the same in that they are Romantics.

BTW you should study Rousseau.

[ansel12]

Now I get it, but the only philosopher that has ever triggered an interest in me, was when I came across Thomas Reid in my 1903 set of Americana encyclopedias.

I think philosophy would have been different for me if the professors had introduced me to Reid, instead of trying to explain why a dumb ass like Nietzsche was so brilliant.