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. ... He thought we could never obtain a good state unless the "philosophers became kings in our states."" ... Aristotle was the third great Greek philosopher. ... After being reborn from the medieval period, the British were influential philosophers in the 17th century. ... The Enlightenment ...

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In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticism, the Industrial Revolution and other changes in society, bloody and peaceful revolutions took place all over Europe. ... This document showed the romantic views of French-Swiss philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as the Enlightenment's rationalism. ... A child of the Enlightenment and advanced in the ranks by the revolution, Napoleon strove to create a meritocracy, a domestic system based on skill and talent rather than artificial and inherited worth like the aristocracy. ... Before the French R...

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The most eloquent and influential male advocate of women's rights was the philosopher Condorcet. ... Condorcet maintained that those who voted against the rights of others, no matter their religion, color, or sex, should forfeit their own rights. ...

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