Liberalism worldwide

The Enlightenment era focusing more on discipline, rules and reason of western culture, stretching roughly from the mid-decades of the seventeenth century through the eighteenth century. The era introduced science, philosophy, society and politics. One of the main cause for the Enlightenment was the Scientific Revolution because of its many accomplishments and breakthrough achieved in the social and political fields. The political viewpoints related of the Enlightenment was from John Locke he…

Thesis: While conservatism in the early 19th century may seem like a rejection to revolution, it was more about silencing the middle class and keeping the power with the institutions and practices of tradition. The French Revolution was the beginning of taking power away from monarchs and institutions, to giving power to the middle class and spreading the role of democracy. While the middle class, or Third Estate, were for this new era and embedded Enlightenment thinking and social contract…

La Vendée Militaire La Vendée was the center of the counter-revolution. The people rioted against the republic to stop this wave of new ideas. The repulic’s answer to this uprising as cruel as it can be was the massacre of every single person supporting the Kingdom of France. This massacre is still a debate today. Some calls it genocide, and other calls it a history mistake. To understand what happen we have to know who they were, and why they were uprising. The leaders of this…

The issue of “freedom” has been a common debate topic for centuries. Whether you are defending freedom of speech or freedom of belief, these freedoms are often rooted in existential freedom. Existential freedom is the freedom to choose the meaning and purpose of one’s life. In other words, this is the freedom that allows one to exist for themselves and what he or she chooses to submit to. There are often many challenges to this freedom, however within existential freedom I believe that it is…

Additionally, neo-conservatism provided some clear aversions to capitalism that was largely synonymous with the industrial revolution, unlike the “Old Right” era that had not completely adopted the capitalist system. There are several views into what the differences between the liberals and the conservatives are. Liberals participates more in activism that the conservatives. They are more optimistic about issues and often more rational in thinking than the conservatives. They also…

For instance, abortions, liberals are for abortions while conservatives call it murder and do not like or allow abortions. Between these two values, I claim myself a liberal Liberalism has some good value and to me, it seems like they have the best intention for a lot of things. I could see myself being more of a liberal than a conservative in the future. But for now, I agree with some of their ideas like keeping religion out…

history. The three are conservatism, liberalism, and moderate. There have been multiple government documents written that helped get us to the most important one we have now. That document would have to be the United States Constitution. I will be focusing on the ideology of conservatism and how it influenced parts of the U.S. Constitution that we now know. Conservatism is the idea of following the “traditional” way of conducting our government. Liberalism supports the freedom and equality of…

Bibliography David-Fox, Michael. “What is Cultural Revolution.” The Russian Review 58:2 (1999): 181-201. Daly, Jonathan W. Autocracy Under Siege: Security Police and Opposition in Russia, 1866-1905. Northern Illinois University Press 1998. Harison, Casey. “The Paris Commune of 1871, the Russian Revolution of 1905, and the Shifting of the Revolutionary Tradition.” History & Memory 19:2 (2007): 5-42. This book elaborates on the precursors to Russian Revolution by examining the link between the…

The French Revolution lasted from 1789-1814. The French Revolution was a huge turning point in France and world history. It impacted France physically and mentally. This conducted many changes in France and countries that bordered it. There were many causes and these causes led to many effects. There were many causes and effects during the French Revolution. One cause was “Louis XVI had full control of everything.” and “He levied taxes and spent the people’s money as he saw fit.” ( document 1).…

The Enlightenment introduced new forms of thinking as well as new philosophers who wrote especially on the topic of liberty and freedom as well as equality. During that period of time, writers wrote to reform the view on the rights of men and for the search to create a better society. Their ideas focused on the power of the people and the search a non restrictive government. These writers provided arguments for new reforms and policies in society and politics. Writers that wrote about this is…