During the Enlightenment in Europe there was a revolution in the way Europeans perceived and pondered the state of the world around them. Several Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke examined the state of humanity and how governments should be structured to reflect this. He had a revelation leading him to the notion that “The state that all people are in naturally…[is] a state of perfect freedom of acting and disposing of their own possessions and persons as they think fit within the bounds of the law of nature…[and] also one of equality in which all power and jurisdiction is reciprocal and no one has more than another” and governments should be structured to reflect this freedom. Locke’s outlook on humanity while sounding simple enough
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These political revolutions were sparked to overthrow what the people believed was a “corrupt system of government” that was persecuting or oppressing a section of the population. An example of this is the French revolution where the French people were given less power than the nobility and clergy members. Revolutionaries rose up against this corrupt system and instituted a system where the people were given more power, but eventually the people’s power was eventually concentrated to a select few leaders amongst the party. This process is reflected in the French Revolution where revolutionaries took France from the “tyrannical” monarchs, who had taken all France’s wealth for themselves and left the people to starve, and gave the power to the higher ranking revolutionaries who then instituted a “Public Safety Committee” which was basically a militia responsible for executing any people who spoke against the revolutionary movement. This was obviously troublesome because French loyalists and revolutionaries alike were being executed for questioning the party in power. This system was arguably more cruel and oppressive than the monarchy before it so France’s royal family eventually took back the country. This shows how even when a movement is based in ultimate
These political revolutions were sparked to overthrow what the people believed was a “corrupt system of government” that was persecuting or oppressing a section of the population. An example of this is the French revolution where the French people were given less power than the nobility and clergy members. Revolutionaries rose up against this corrupt system and instituted a system where the people were given more power, but eventually the people’s power was eventually concentrated to a select few leaders amongst the party. This process is reflected in the French Revolution where revolutionaries took France from the “tyrannical” monarchs, who had taken all France’s wealth for themselves and left the people to starve, and gave the power to the higher ranking revolutionaries who then instituted a “Public Safety Committee” which was basically a militia responsible for executing any people who spoke against the revolutionary movement. This was obviously troublesome because French loyalists and revolutionaries alike were being executed for questioning the party in power. This system was arguably more cruel and oppressive than the monarchy before it so France’s royal family eventually took back the country. This shows how even when a movement is based in ultimate