... plentiful and very diverse. As the various facets of man were studied, the exchange of ideas and information regarding human interaction created a variety of new philosophies. Each of the philosophers contributed their perspective to the pool of ideas and broadened the scope of understanding of how the "state of nature- influenced and helped individuals manage and run society. Throughout ... this process of understanding, many philosophers introduced ideas and concepts that influenced our culture and society. First, Thomas Hobbes identified that humans were in continual war with "every m...

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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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... Spain (1808-1810). The Criollos found in this circumstance the opportunity to seek their independence form Spain. Influenced by the concepts of liberty, equality and democracy proposed by the French philosophers Rousseau, Montesquieu, Voltaire, and by the war of Independence of the United States, they decided to start a revolt. It was 1810, and their plan was to start the war on ... ...

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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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