PHIL 2P15 Lecture Notes - Smallpox, Immorality, French Revolution
25 Oct 2012
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Will think of democracy with anglo/american ideas of what democracy is. Politics is about the allocation of power rather than the good of the community. France in the 1790"s what was at stake was ideas. Ideas that were so central to jjr have something in common with world changing ideas. R. scheme was flew in the face everything that the french women and men knew about french politics. Jjr was the bad boy of the enlightenment. Jjr ideas were shocking to many of his contemporaries, b/c of his ideas of arts and sciences. Science and reason declined happiness for the french people. Way to virtue was to lead a simple life. Jjr thought its people were becoming morally bankrupt and knowledge was bad/corrupt. His ideas were shocking to his enlightenment allies. Allies thought he was intellectual (mooned the intellectually) Thought enlightenment thinkers were a bad idea.
