... or at least enforce the reforms it desperately needed. In the Austro-Hungarian case discontent was not so resonant, economies were relatively developed (although eventually it became evident that political and economic leaders in Austria-Hungary chose to serve their own needs first). Policy was far more in line with Western enlightenment, religion was tolerated and equality the legal precedent. Nevertheless ... pockets of discontent existed. The collapse of the empire during the First World War brought all these factors together as national boundaries were redrawn. Whilst Balkan national...

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... and thoughts about rebuilding an entire country. In Hitler as philosophe:Remnats of the enlightenment in national socialism. Lawrence Birken (1995) writes, "Hitler's outlook was very much a part of the Western intellectual tradition. In his "combination of an almost religious faith with a revolutionary secularism," "Hitler represented the continuation of an essentially Enlightenment style of thought... Nazism, and especially Hitler's exposition of it, represented an attenuated ... and popularized form of the Enlightenment style of thought." Hitler also makes it very clear in his writing...

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... he tends to side with Birling when the inspector is discovered to be a fake, Gerald is pragmatic and slightly Machiavellian. Birling and his wife learn nothing throughout, for everything that had been done bad there was always somebody else to blame. Sheila and Eric learn by far the most, theirs is the real journey from ignorance to enlightenment. Despite being born into privilege, they ... see the errors of their ways and have become different people. The inspector showed them a mirror; they didn't like what they saw, so they decided to change for ... the better. How, then, can "An In...

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