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14 Cards in this Set
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Examples of Enlightenment Themes |
Reason, Autonomy, Liberty, Newtonian's View of Nature, Religious Toleration, Common Human Nature, and Progress and Optimism. |
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Reason |
Deists try to purge religion of the miraculous and supernatural, leaving only rational religion. |
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Autonomy |
Suspicion and criticism of traditional political, social, and religious ideas and authorities. - Rousseau - David Hume - Voltaire |
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Newtonian View of nature |
Rational and law-governed |
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Voltaire |
Portrayed the aristocrats as buffoons. |
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American and French Revolution |
The Enlightenment was definitely influential in both of these, but it did not cause either of them. |
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What people fell outside of the estate divisions? |
The millions of African American slaves (11 million) that the Europeans brought over to cultivate crops. - Reasoning for this: * Europeans did not want to go abroad and they certainly did not want to work on plantations. * The Europeans tried to enslave the natives, but were unsuccessful mainly because their disease wiped them all out. |
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Contrasts between enlightenment and traditional ideas |
Kant's ideas about human beings and their intrinsic worth and dignity opposes the division of estates. |
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The French Government |
Had an increasing need for money because it was badly in debt, largely because of wars (7 years war, American Revolution). By 1788 the debt consumed more than half of the government's expenditures. |
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7 Years War |
France vs. Prussia and Britain. France lost a lot of her valuable overseas holding which blew up the debt. |
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American Revolution |
France assisted America in defeating the British, which blew up Frances debt. |
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The uproar building to the French Revolution |
Fueled by philosophes like Rousseau, Voltaire, and Kant. |
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Charrierse's The Nobleman |
the father is only concerned with proving hisright to hangcriminals (36) and repaint his ancestors’ portraits, the son is a wastrel (“Hisperson was unpleasing . . .” [37]); the daughter finds true love in a fine young man,but he is not good enough because his nobility only dates back to hisfather (38).
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Noailles Affair |
A young woman is seduced by a young nobleman, who then marries her in order to save her reputation; when his older brother dies, however, it is thought improper for him to have a wife who is a commoner and the noble family claims there is no marriage and he is married to a more suitable woman.
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