HIS109Y1 Lecture Notes - John Calvin, Philosophes, Formal Learning
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In order to understand the revolution and its connection to the enlightenment one must understand the mind of rousseau who created a revolutionary program with a text. To understand europe, you have to understand the effects that books had. Of all the thinkers we have been talking about; none have been as influential as. Voltaire was a genius at pointing out absurdities, but he offered no alternative in. Montesquieu created a set of principles in which societies were built; however. Rousseau its place they did apply to large numbers of people (was a modern, sought a solution that could be sustained, an organic world in which powers operated separately) completely different from montesquieu and voltaire. Was not able to get large numbers of people to the street, however rousseau was. Was the most revolutionary thinker, built upon the ideas of those before him.