HIST 1007 Chapter : Enlightenment Ideas Of The 19th Century
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Enlightenment ideas of the 19th century: the spread of nationalism eastward, unification and un-unification. Borders were not necessarily set/clear: set stage for conflict in balkan region and eastern europe, more on this later , socialism, one interpretation of enlightenment ideals. Cannot be resolved while there is economic disparity: must eliminate social differences if poor people are going to be truly free. Solution: rid people of private property: basic idea, utopian socialism. Small sects sharing stuff: mostly in the new world, ex. New harmony: very few lasted more than a generation was not to transform society as a whole, karl marx (1818-1883) Dialectical materialism: dialectics: progress through opposition, any given situation will call forth those opposed to that situation, when those forces clash, something new and better is formed. Influence from hegel: materialism: the primacy of economics, types of history: economic, social - based on the strata of classes. Political - forms of government derived from social setting.
