HIST 1003 Lecture : Notes 2 16 12
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1781-89: bureaucratic reforms; german is official language (more effective, all documents in one language), some rationalization (to 1790, religious toleration, other enlightened reform (e. g. civil and, example, spain 1763-1790s. Government: us revolution is an example of successful enlightenment-style government. Metanarratives: secularization and the coming of modernity; persia. A european movement of critics of existing arrangements who. 4 characteristics: skepticism (systematic doubt), belief in natural laws (to be discovered), use of reason, belief that progress will follow. Reason as tool for rational, systematic investigation, organization, and action . New natural law of economics (supply and demand) New, secular, optimistic model of human beings that could account for evil without. Society based on merit resort to original sin : renaissance manliness (virt , pre-17th century origins, political rights: hobbes and locke, reason: rationalism and empiricism, rationalism, systematic doubt, deductive and inductive reasoning (descartes,
