EURO ST 10 Chapter Notes - Chapter 5: Olympe De Gouges, Aria, Toussaint Louverture
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Lecture: tensions between the particular and the universal. Tensions between the particular and the universal. Just like the enlightenment, the french revolution was framed as a universal. Appeals to nature and reason and the supreme being made possible a movement critique of distinctions . Recall papageno"s a deep truth in answer to the question: Stupid question, a human being like you . Or there are black birds, why not black people . The declaration of the rights of man was to be a normative ideal against which laws and social institutions could be measured. And yet, we can recall the tension we saw in sarastro"s aria, which called on the one hand for the openness of these sacred halls while, on the other hand, practicing certain forms of oppositional exclusions. In fact, limitations were built into the very fabric of the declaration. While natural rights were to be granted to all human beings, the rights of.
