HIST1055 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Olympe De Gouges, Immanuel Kant, Nationstates
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Political independence of the united states required it to develop closer financial ties with other political bodies. Financial ties w/france helped start france"s own revolution. Introduction: radical visions, cosmopolitanism ideology that all human beings belong to a single community, based on a shared morality. Based on an inclusive morality, a shared economic relationship, or a political structure that encompasses different nations. In a cosmopolitan community individuals from different places (e. g. nation-states) form relationships of mutual respect: universalism. Observe and believe in the universality of the human experience. And that of all sentient life and work to uphold the principles, ethics, and actions that safeguard these fundamental things. Human unity, solidarity, and the perceived need for a sustainable and socially conscious global order: reaction. Extreme conservatism or rightism in politics; opposing political or. Cosmopolitanism social change: scientific societies, salons, illegal books, a cosmopolitan, by 1770s, identifies w/something beyond the nation, part of an international conversation, an individual.
