POL320Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Natural Disaster, French Revolution
12 Dec 2016
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Man of paradox, died before the french revolution but still lived in a time of great change. We need the good opinion of other in order to feel good about ourselves, we are confined by (cid:862)we a(cid:396)e (cid:374)ot f(cid:396)ee(cid:863) (cid:862)(cid:373)a(cid:374) is (cid:271)o(cid:396)(cid:374) f(cid:396)ee (cid:271)ut e(cid:448)e(cid:396)y(cid:449)he(cid:396)e he is i(cid:374) (cid:272)hai(cid:374)s(cid:863) political, economic and social bonds. Mother died in child birth, he writes that this was one of the first misfortunes of his life. He was misfortunate in his life, ran away from geneva and converted to catholicism as a form of rebellion. Servant, tutor, secretory etc had many jobs and ended up in paris. Liberty, tolerations, separation of powers, reason: general ideas of the 18th century enlightenment. Many enlightenment thinkers opposed traditional religious thoughts/ideas. Critiqued the enlightenment, he is a thinker of this time but also argued against some other thinkers of the time: (cid:862)(cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:395)ue of the (cid:272)(cid:396)iti(cid:395)ues(cid:863) Offered solutions and responses to pathologies of modern times.
