Throughout the professor’s speech about originality, I was consumed with the thought about what is truly original. Beethoven was said to have a style of originality that has rarely if ever been surpassed. Do you have to have some influence in order to create an original style or piece? Based on the dictionary definition of originality, it the quality or state of being original. However, in Beethoven’s case, originality could mean freshness of aspect, design, or style. This could be applied to the philosophers of the enlightenment period because they were consistently consuming my mind during his speech. Like many philosophers now, they still try to discuss and reveal new truths about the same subjects that their ancestors once wrote about.
