HISC26H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Immanuel Kant, Materialism, Sapere Aude
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The french revolution and the napoleonic empire (hisc26) Theorists of divine right, like bossuet, ground arguments in scripture: all power comes from god. As saint paul says, the king is god"s minister to thee, for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain. For he is god"s minister: an avenger of evil actions" (romans 13:4). Demise of the royal touch was another symbol of changing status of king. Louis xiv (1639-1715) was the last to heavily practice the touch: upon his coronation in 1654, he touched 3,000 people in one ceremony. The great chain of being (represented on stairs: clergy, god, king, nobility a. Judicial system: everyone else, peasants, urban workers, bourgiosie. The human ability to transform this ordained order was also conceptually limited: philosophers affirmed the biblical claim nothing new under the sun.
