However, the concomitant attempt to bring about an ideal humanistic system (based on Enlightenment thought), most nearly attempted in Scandinavia, has fallen short of fruition. ... Thus, his teleological (ends-based) philosophy is called a science of ends. ... Rome offered the world's first mixed government; that is, a senate, consuls, council, and tribunes. ... He lists four reasons we left the natural state to enter into a society with government. ... A legislative government is made by a contract among the citizens, with direct representative legislature and the consent of the go...

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There was death for a narrowly defined ideal of republican Liberty based upon a concept of collective political authority. ... For both men, genuine liberty was found in a community based on tradition and right reason. ...

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"Historians are left forever chasing shadows, painfully aware of their inability to ever reconstruct a dead world in its completeness however thorough or revealing their documentation" – Simon Schama The French Revolution shook the foundations of French society to the core, leading to new waves of ideas and institutions. Two hundred and twenty years on, the origins of this unique event are inconclusive. There seems to be a widespread opinion that the outbreak of the French Revolution was on the 14th of July 1789, at the Storming of the Bastille. Even William Doyle highlights t...

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History 185 Test #2 04-01-03 The seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the era that paved the way for the creation of our modern day governments and societies, was an era of political and social revolutions. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... The final stage of the French Revolution occurred when the bourgeois failed at government and their republic floundered. ... A child of the Enlightenment and advanced in the ranks by the revolution, Napoleon strove to create a meritocracy, a domestic syst...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate