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14 Cards in this Set
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Voltaire
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candide
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Diderot
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get rid of king and church
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Hobbes
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Leviathan
-we need a govt to watch ovr man -people are bad |
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Locke
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-man is rational/born =
-govt should use ed. to make better people -*contract theory - |
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Adam Smith
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"The wealth of Nations"
-opposed mercantilism -indiv. promotes his interests |
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Montesquieu
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The Spirit of Laws-
*separation fo pwrs *Polit conserv-pro aristocracy *no 1 syst of govt *there is a perfct gov for each place |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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-desired to make peeps good
-agst. priv. property |
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Intellectual Causes
-enlightenment |
1.Liberalism-much larger intellectual class w/ enlightened pol. ideas.
2.Ideas-Liberty, ability of people to rule themselves, equality of law |
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Social Causes
-feudalism -classes |
Estates System--
1.Clergy -2-5% of pop. -10% of land -controled peas./tax exempt 2.Nobles -2-5% of pop. -20% of land -great wealth -div.of d'epee & robe 3.Everyone Else -95% of pop. -some righ,peas.,artisans DIVIDED-- *Bougeoisie -8% land -exploited peas. *Peas. -40% of land -paid most tax -wished to own property *Par.poor -Factory workers -most politicized |
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Thomas Paine
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*Rights of Man
-response to Burke's work -wrote on cause of discontent: 1.govt 2.povert 3.illit 4.war |
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Edmund Burk
-conservative |
"rotten burrough system"
-doesnt supp despotism -people arent good -populism cant be trusted -good gov coms from exp.& should |
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Marat
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(radical) critic of govt
-calls for complt overthrw -says no equality |
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Robespierre
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Committee of P.S.
--knocks off all enimies then gets beheaded. |
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Napoleon
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enimies fail-napoleon takes over
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