... of the earth by offering up a secular state that is supposed to be sufficient for all. The highest hopes for political systems were held by some 18th century French Enlightenment philosophers, specifically Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat, the Marquis de Condorcet. However, the concomitant attempt to bring about an ideal humanistic system (based on Enlightenment thought), most nearly attempted ... , and especially the multi-tiered government, were a major role model for French humanists and the societies they influenced. After being reborn from the medieval period, the British were inf...

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... realm of God. Religion follows on the heels of science and tries to twist the path leading to the future back on itself and into the past. As scientists and philosophers continue the work of the Enlightenment, theologians will scamper along in the shadow and call it light. Eco-theology seeks to change the life-thwarting aspects of Judeo-Christianity, but ... ...

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... . By confiscating church property, no matter how justified, France's Revolutionary leaders showed that they weren't interested in a true free society, only in one created in the image of their own philosophers. Soon France began to descend into a state of anarchy in which it would remain for the next 25 years. In towns where royalist mayors were still popular, bands of men ... ...

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... makes up the environment of revolutionary thinking. Partly it was the same authors who influenced not only the American revolution but also the French and the Irish. It were great philosophers like Macchievelli, especially important in France where the idea of power sharing was still not even to a certain extent reality like in England, Descartes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltair, Kant and many ... ...

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