HIST285 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Liberal Democracy, Montesquieu, Antithesis
16 Oct 2017
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European critics of china: daniel defoe, robinson crusoe, 1719, popular writer (british great), chinese poor, cruel, badly governed, backward, proud. Probably met haughty chinese officials: montesquieu (1689-1755, 1748, the spirit of the laws. A spirit that manipulates political systems: monarchy, good system, animated by honour, glory in serving the monarch, republics, animated by virtue, despotisms, animated by fear. How you keep order: the father of political science and sociology. Trying to do a categorization of all human political systems: german enlightenment hegel, montesquieu, found people who could speak french. Idea of us constitution checks the balance of power: size pg. What type of government requires a small size: a republic, eg. Geneva: china must be held together by fear because how else would china stay in one piece? (a despotism, qi long was the most powerful man in china and a great emperor, hegel, pg.
