HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - William Godwin, French Revolution, Romanticism
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Elements that helped define european civilization that separates it from other societies in terms of depth & size in organizations that we call radical the 19th century. Political movements that exist to this day we associate with those that began in. What were the circumstances that gave rise to these schisms? . Movements that dominated the 19th century came from: 1) heritage of the 18th. Enlightenment: structuring of a comprehensible universe definition of century enlightenment, & 2) consequences of industrialization. Newton"s laws & physics showed that there were laws that were absolute & immutable, & those that are mutable that we can change to make lives on earth better. Most radical of the 18th century thinkers was rousseau. Locke natural r ight of humanity to life & liberty. Rousseau, social contract: much of the misery that resulted in society came from. land owners against the natural law & general will of people.
