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 believed that personal property caused disunity, so for the upper two classes (the philosopher-rulers and warriors, not the laborers) there should be common living, eating and gathering. 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 ...

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Contrary to common belief, women were important contributors to the popular movement during the French Revolution. They staged demonstrations and food riots, presented petitions to the National Assembly, and brought the royal family back to the governmental capital. They agitated ceaselessly for ...

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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. ...

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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. In response to the new thinking that was sparked by the Enlightenment, Romanticis...

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