RELS 349 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Liberal Conservatism, Ascanius, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
25 Oct 2018
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Neo-calvinism as a political tradition part 1. Early calvinist movement very involved with politics. 18th century, got enlightenment, which questioned the existing ordered and stressed the importance of reason. Frederick the great of prussia, queen of sweden were enlightenment rulers who sought change in educational thinking. One of the views can be seen in terms of seeing society as a natural organism that has to be allowed to develop naturally, hence government shall not intervene. Government should be left out of the economic factors. Its job is to protect civilians from internal and external enemies. There will always be remains after an event. In 1789, the french revolution occured, which was followed by other revolutions throughout europe. French revolution moved from attempting to change order, to abolishing the old order. Napoleon was conservative in many of the things he did. He took over where the revolution had failed. Germany was multiple states combined, before it broke up.
