HTST 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Bank Of France, Pantheism, Baruch Spinoza
7 Apr 2015
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Institutional backwardness under fire: archaic conventions and institutions of gov"t could not adjust to modern financial needs of society and state, (tax farmers) the company of farmers general (gros. No national bank or lending institutions: the banque royale crashed in 1720. Non bureaucracy or system of taxations fermier: sales of offices and titles. Aristocracy and clergy: 250000 -1/3 land, revenues, tax exempts, parlements, nobles of the robe vs. nobles of the sword, the clergy. Nor representative institutions to take responsibilities: estate generals. Enlightenment attack on tradition: baruch spinoza, ethics, pantheism, god and nature are one, god only works with natural laws. Anglo envy: thomas hobbes, leviathan, theres a social contract between kings and him looking after his people. Literacy and print media: rise of the bourgeoisie, educational evolution. No universal social welfare system: no poor help techniques, feudal dues, taxations.
