HIS241H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: New Atlantis, Aristocracy, Immanuel Kant
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Middle and upper class could follow the new ideas (e. g. rousseau) that assaulted traditional society: academies of science. Charles louis de secondat (1689-1755) (cid:862) pirt of the la(cid:449)s(cid:863) idea of the division of political power into three branches (judicial, administrative, executive), (cid:449)hi(cid:272)h (cid:272)reates a (cid:271)ala(cid:374)(cid:272)e that"s augmented by law. Denis diderot (1713 1784) created the 1st encyclopedia (1751-1772: believed that through the spread of knowledge, society could be fixed the more we know, the more involved we get. Immanuel kant (1724-1804) categorical imperative and kantian ethics idea that (cid:374)o (cid:373)atter the (cid:272)ir(cid:272)u(cid:373)sta(cid:374)(cid:272)es or i(cid:374)terests, there"s a (cid:272)ertai(cid:374) set of moral and ethic values that have to followed. Financial crisis (cid:272)o(cid:374)sta(cid:374)t (cid:449)ar (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) the (cid:373)iddle of the 1(cid:1011)th (cid:272). Lower nobility: angry about oversell of offices, the # of positions in the army and civil service, and decline in value of their estates feared tax reform.
