HUM 223 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Antithesis, Nationstates, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
8 Jun 2018
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Revolution’s End and Romanticism
Rise of Napoleon Bonaport
¨Military Service during the Revolution
¨Friendship with Paul Barras—executive of the Directory (1795-1799)
¨18 Brumaire (9 November 1799)—coup against the Directory with Napoleon’s support
Continuation of the Revolution
¨Constitution of the Year VIII (15 Dec. 1799)
¤Napoleon and his brother were responsible for its creation
¤“It is founded on the true principles of representative government, on the sacred rights of
property, equality, and liberty.”
¤“Citizens, the Revolution is established on the principles which began it. It is finished.”
¨Shared Principles with the Constitution of the year III (Sept. 1795)
¤Governance by ownership of property—need to own property to vote
¤Nationalization of Church property
¤Representative government—Republic rather than a Democracy
¤Bi-cameral legislature
¤Executive Directory
¨Distinct features of the Constitution of the Year VIII
¨Creation of the Consulate—legitimizes the coup
¨Creation of the Senate—life terms and responsible for electing the consuls
¨Electoral process by tenths
¨Neoclassical government!!!!!!!
Napoleonic Code
¨Goal—consistent body of legal doctrine
¨Revolutionary ideas—secularization of civic identity and legal equality
¤State records births, deaths and marriages
¤Abolition of seigniorial rights
¤Protection of individual property rights
¨Restoration of Patriarchy—women are legally and economically dependent on their husband
What happened to the Revolution?
¨Napoleon was created out of the French Revolution
¨Napoleon was seen as embodying the spirit of the Revolution
¨Napoleon provided stability for France
¨France became a power again
Reaction to the Enlightenment
¨French Revolution was based on ideals shaped by the Enlightenment
¨French Revolution failed to achieve the political and social goals it set out to accomplish
¨Napoleonic France represented a more widespread reaction to assumptions about Natural
Law
Romanticism as Philosophy
¨Immanuel Kant—Critique of Pure Reason (1781)
¤Rejection of empiricism as a means of discovering “pure” understanding
¤Understanding is shaped by our mind’s acceptance of an object
¨Human mind shapes the idea of the world—we cannot know the world as it really is, only as
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Document Summary
Friendship with paul barras executive of the directory (1795-1799) 18 brumaire (9 november 1799) coup against the directory with napoleon"s support. Constitution of the year viii (15 dec. 1799) Napoleon and his brother were responsible for its creation. It is founded on the true principles of representative government, on the sacred rights of property, equality, and liberty. Citizens, the revolution is established on the principles which began it. Shared principles with the constitution of the year iii (sept. 1795) Governance by ownership of property need to own property to vote. Distinct features of the constitution of the year viii. Creation of the senate life terms and responsible for electing the consuls. Revolutionary ideas secularization of civic identity and legal equality. Restoration of patriarchy women are legally and economically dependent on their husband. Napoleon was created out of the french revolution. Napoleon was seen as embodying the spirit of the revolution.
