HIST 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Secret Police, Free Trade, Treaty Of Amiens
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Wants a free press, with rational institutions. Wants kings and nobles to look after people below them. Writes against meaningless traditions and measures them against reason. Wanted to use science to make world better. Thinks people are not designed for war. Wants to educate people on the latest discoveries of scientific revolution. Charles de secondat, baron de montesquieu (17th-18th century) Believed he could apply new discoveries to science and politics. Salons- place where thinkers met to discuss new ideas. Exploring and grasping new ideas- some worked and some did not. He decided best government was mix of english constitution and louis xiv. Rejected importance of reason and his solutions to europe"s problems are more radical. Argues that in the state of nature we were happy and have everything we need. They try to implement enlightenment into france. Free education for all for the first time. Confiscate land of nobility and church and redistribute the land to the poor.
