HIST 1003 Chapter : 16-Feb
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Post 1763 changes/ enlightened absolutism: methods: apply reason and some enlightened ideas, legal codification and reform (end of judicial torture), one law for all, ameliorate or end serfdom. Easier to answer concrete: more system in tax collection, budgets, didn"t always stick to budget, generally less willing to tolerate resistance to change, b. Codes: by 1790, austria is example of enlightened absolutism. French revolution of 1789, national assembly, consulate are revolutionary in changes they force. Metanarratives: secularization and the coming of modernity; persia. Implied hierarchical scheme of other 17th and 18th century relativists : single standard, not true relativism, the noble savage, man living per natural law, is a european construct, ex. Tupi tribe in brazil: natural law and liberty (see new model of humankind ) What the enlightened did with this: political agenda, government like the english, sources: voltaire, philosophical letters on the english (1733); montesquieu,
