PHIL 2P15 Lecture Notes - King Power
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The causes of the french revolution: why might we care about the f. r, what was revolutionary about the f. r, why did the revolution happen, cause, significance, we are living in the middle of a revolution right now. We are trying to make sense of the world. How we connect ourselves to the world of the past f. r was one of the key political movements (lead to democracy) Got ride of several privileges with privilege came duties, king had the power to rule over the people but protect them the whole system that the whole french monarchy came crashing down. Was made up of millions of different significant events, actions and ideas. Values of radical enlightenment: democracy; racial and sexual equality; individual liberty of lifestyle; full freedom of thought, expression: political causes. Not the first revolution (american revolution 1770s) George washington was one of the great rebels of the a. r. The dutch revolt collapsed in the summer of 1787 the.