... Chapter 2-Muggeridge's Philosophy-page 43 CONCLUSION-page 46 PART I (THE STATUS QUO) ?Introduction Enlightenment thought served as the central basis for utopian politics. French thinkers like Charles Louis de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu and Jean Jacques Rousseau dreamed of recreating the best aspects of former political systems through improving people. Condorcet was even more flowing with confidence in people, and made ... Francois-Marie Arouet, was considered to be the first thinker of the Enlightenment, an epoch which challenged traditions and hoped for humans to improve themselves...

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... with the stalled constitutional revolution, and fed up with the shortage of food, all fuelled their discontentment. Early in the morning of October 5th 7,000 women rallied outside the Hotel de Ville and set off on the fourteen kilometer march to Versailles, armed with pikes, clubs, knives, swords, muskets, and a cannon (4). The women were determined to lower the bread prices ... legislature, and radical clubs advocating for republican ideas. The women of France were enacting the vision of liberal citizenship that Condorcet so enthusiastically supported. They joined the Confederation de...

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... , created a Society of Equals dedicated to the abolition of private property and the destruction of all those who held property. The king's guards were eventually captured and killed. The Marquis de Sade, from whom we get the term sadism, was released from prison. The Paris Commune took over control of Paris. In the spring of 1792, the First Committee of Public ... ...

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