HISTORY 3011 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Natural And Legal Rights, Political Philosophy, Petite Bourgeoisie

• School: Ohio State University
• Department: History
• Course: HISTORY 3011
• Professor: Melissah Pawlikowski

Document Summary

Intellectual revolution: reason, analyzes, it is possible to know things, anti-innate knowledge. Everyone is born equal (a blank state), experience and education inform reason. O(cid:448)e(cid:396)eig(cid:374)ty: (cid:862)esta(cid:271)lished (cid:271)y (cid:272)o(cid:374)se(cid:374)t i(cid:374) the (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374)(cid:449)ealth(cid:863) free peoples. 1775: average circulation of a newspaper was 600. Political debates shaped by: roman republic the english civil war. (cid:862)bo(cid:396)(cid:396)o(cid:449)ed f(cid:396)o(cid:373)(cid:863) politi(cid:272)al philosophe(cid:396)s, pai(cid:374) a(cid:374)d othe(cid:396) (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) (cid:448)oi(cid:272)es(cid:863), bi(cid:271)li(cid:272)al (cid:271)ases to speak to masses. Reprinted, borrowed from, & quoted john trenchard and thomas gordon out of content appeal to petit bourgeois public sphere. Printed in local regions who did not support. Feared persecution as protestants following glorious revolution. Feared jacobite overthrow felt attack on british liberties. Demand for virtue and a government free of corruption. Cato"s lette(cid:396)s: essays o(cid:374) li(cid:271)e(cid:396)ty, ci(cid:448)il a(cid:374)d religious. Appeared in every newspaper in all 13 colonies. 1/2 of all private libraries held at least 1 copy of cato. Cato suicide: demanded liberty and virtue and corrupt free government.