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How Did the American Revolution Influence the French Revolution?
Maximilien Robespierre came to power in France shortly after the French Revolution began. In Epistemology, he redefined the subjective self. They made up 98% of the population. The 18th century Enlightenment was a movement of the intellectuals who dared to prove all the aspects in life scientifically. The Enlightenment thinkers accepted two forms of government: the monarchy and the republic. Locke's philosophy had a direct influence on Rousseau. In the 1780's, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson came to France as diplomats, and their presence in Paris greatly impressed the French people.
Both the American Revolution and French Revolution were based on Enlightenment ideals. Instead of being tied to one religious authority, there were many choices in the colonies and people had a right to choose how to establish and maintain their connection to God. They took place in libraries, coffee shops, clubs, Masonic lodges, in modern salons or in literary societies. The economic prosperity in Europe also gave rise to a more prosperous and particular middle class who questioned authority. Thus, the French king left the Louvre Palace and moved to Versailles. The French Revolution was also an attempt to overcome absolute authority and usher in a new age.
The Influence of the Enlightenment on The Formation of the United States
The Intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment occupies an important position in the growth of Western civilization. They wanted to change the way things had been by applying logic and reasoning, to come up with answer to things, People started to apply this way of thinking by using logic and reasoning to more then just science, politics, government, and moe. He created a vast body of work. Men started to question and criticize the concepts of nationalism and warfare. He established a Napoleonic Code which stressed the rights of man and equality for all men, especially relating to property. Content on this page may not be republished or distributed without permission.
How Did the American Revolution Influence the French Revolution?
He considered that these institutions, as well as the States Provincial, had a special role in mediation between the king and his subjects. He thought that a republic would give more power to the people and improve individual freedom. John Locke personally criticized monarchy and social inequality. Enlightenment thinkers promoted ideas of progress and natural law in all aspects of society. The French Revolution influenced a lot to the rise of sociology, due to many factors considered by the philosophers and theorist by that time e.
The French Revolution was inspired by the philosophies of Locke and Rousseau. Many French revolutionaries had studied British government and society. He was a tyrant at this time because he told everyone who should live and die. Why should Britain control us and oppress us, shouldn't we have freedom and the right to the pursuit of Hapiness. They had everything handed to them on a silver platter. The surviving currents in this period which favored the awakening of critical thinking were: humanism based on the thinking of Erasmus, the current of free speech and writing, and critical analysis influenced by Antiquity. His assassination took place en route to an ostensible trial at the Palais Royal.
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This concept was very attractive to American citizens, and ultimately led to the restructuring of the American government. They advocated for universal education and secularized learning, said Abernethy. Locke uses the word property in both the broad and the narrow sense. The Enlightenment culminated in the French Revolution 1789-1799 and was followed by the Romantic period. Instead of one all-powerful church that almost required membership, Protestant ideals based on Enlightenment principles of free will and freedom from institutions allowed people to choose membership in a church rather than be forced into one. The … stories of the French soldiers that had fought in America began to spread and the French people wanted a democratic, independent non-royal state as well.
There was a widespread famine at the time and the resulting malnutrition increased disease and death among the lower classes. The church especially had a long history of suppression of new ideas and discoveries, thus driving many intellectuals into hiding and underground to avoid torture and death. The rebellion began with the women taking action in the streets that were fed up with hunger and what was perceived as the all talk and lack of action by all the others. Reason could help humans break free from ignorance and irrationality, and learning to think reasonably could teach humans to act reasonably, as well. Age of Enlightenment The Age of Enlightenment, which lasted throughout much of the 17th and 18th centuries, was an intellectual movement, which resulted in overturning many old ideas.
It was 1-2% of the population and was exempt from taxes. They tested popular notions with scientifically controlled experiments and personal experience, though skepticism of one's own senses was another factor in Enlightenment thought, and caused complicated philosophical conundrums, according to the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. The war that had let much of French holdings in the New Word slip away was resumed in the hopes to regain them. People learned what ideas they later held by influences upon them in life by others from a multitude of directions such as, church, parents, work, schooling, peers, research, etc. The Enlightenment of the eighteenth century brought about new ways of thinking regarding religion and politics.
