History 1401E Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Charles Alexandre De Calonne, Age Of Enlightenment, Slut
19 Mar 2018
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Unintended consequences: social progress, elimination of abhorrent survivals, but also popular unrest often rooted in religious or cultural opposition (in austria, but also pugachev"s rebellion (1773-5)), often maintained by repressive measures (military, police, censorship) Zehnder wants to get rid of burka: make things more modern. His cousin takes control-> took things very fast. > a year later, system wide meltdown, rebellion. Sufficient cause -> necessary cause -> partial/contributory causes -> proximate cause -> Sufficient cause: sufficient to cause enough in itself to cause what we observe. Necessary cause: has to happen in order for an event to occur, prerequisite to event. Enablers: passive things that permitted it to happen without necessarily causing an event. Forcible overthrow of a government or social order, in favour of a new system. (in marxism) the class struggle which is expected to lead to political change and the triumph of communism. Dramatic and wide reaching change in conditions, attitudes, or operation.
