HIST 1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Enlightened Absolutism, Religious Fanaticism, Toleration
2 Feb 2016
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New ideas spreading in salons, coffeehouses, secret societies groups of merchants and lawyers part of new bourgeois middle class, reading writing and circulating ideas among likeminded. Ottoman emp and constantinople part of it travellers coming down to see it. Ideas are being circulated throughout eu at an immense pace. Women sometimes part of this world and sometimes kept out of it. *each philosopher has their own ideas, not all agreed on tenants below* Most saw civ as something harmful to natural and honest development of citizens. Civ institutions that ctrl ppl"s choices and natural ability to govern themselves. Eus encountering other civs meeting cultures where no sign of their idea of civ: ppl like diderot reflecting on voyages to se, encounters w/ tahitians (cultures that don"t seem to be governed by same rules as eus) Term noble savage rousseau talks of man"s primitive state corrupted by tradish forms of governance.
