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the Enlightenment vc
Vocab flashcards
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| philosophe | french for philosopher; applied to all intellectuals during the enlightenment |
| deism | an 18th century religious philosophy based on reasons and natural laws |
| salons | a gathering of people recognized by a hostess who encouraged the discussion of intellectual topics in a party/dinner. |
| arbitrary | at. one's discretion |
| estates | one of the three classes in French society before the revolution; first(clergy) second(nobles) third(everyone else) |
| taille | an annual direct tax, usually on land or property, that provided a regular source of income for french monarchy. |
| sans culottes | radical members of the Paris commune who considered themselves patriots by wearing long trousers |
| coup d' etat | a sudden overthrow of the government |
| consulate | government in France established by Napoleon after the overthrow of the directory in 1799 |
| naitonalism | an idea & movement that holds that a country builds a national identity through culture, religion, history, etc. and promotes its its values and aims among the community of nations, |
| conservatism | before the mid 17 century was a political philosophy based on tradition, church, monarch, mercantilism, and paternalism, the idea that the state knows your best interests. |
| liberalism | a late 18 century political movement that sought to break the country away from older traditions of monarchy, mercantilism.. |
| radicalism | the idea that social systems need to undergo major, even violent, changes in order to bring equality to society. |
| ancien regime | French for "old regime" referred to the old monarchy before the Revolution |
| factors of production | land (resources), labor (human efforts), capital (money, manufacture of products) |
| division of labor | the capitalist method of organizing labor into the most efficient means into producing a finished good |
| bourgeoisie | Karl Marx; the class that controls factories and the means of production |
| proletariat | the working class |
| socialism | a system in which society, usually the government, owns and controls the means of production |
| utopia | is an imagined community or society that possesses highly desirable or nearly perfect qualities for its citizens |
| enlightened absolutism | a term used to describe monarchs such as Fredrick the great of Prussia who used the Enlightenment principles in the hopes of benefiting their subjects and expanding their powers |
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