HY 106 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Enlightened Absolutism, Toleration, Mercantilism
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He took from this that running away from responsibilities hurts the people around you. He then wrote a book called the (owever, frederick william found him. (e kills frederick the great"s. Anti-machiavel. (e states that you don"t have to be a bad person to be a good. While michavelli was saying that"s how he was treated. had a reasonable sense of what he could and could not get away with. (e"s a. Frederick the great takes the thrown and institutes a series of legal reforms in prussia. Abolishes legal torture for misdemeanors but keeps it for big crime. Jews were given the freedom of practice and limited land rights. He does not touch serfdom, therefore they remain completely in place. In most fields of his adult life, he good balance of wanting change but wanting those changes to stick after his death: catherine the great married the son of the russian czar in 1745.
