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Edmund Burke, Joseph de Maistre, and John Stuart Mill

facilitate a persons physical or moral good. In other words, laws should be formulated only in so far as one persons actions inter...

Individual Liberty Perspectives

In five pages this report examines models of anarchy, socialism, liberalism, and democracy as they relate to individual liberty wi...

Political Perspectives of Burke and Rousseau

true founder of civil society." (from Discours surlOrigine et le Fondement delIn?galit? Parmi les Hommes, 1754). General speaking...

Major Characteristics of Conservative and Liberal Thought of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries

In five pages this paper discusses conservative and liberal thinking of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as each is represe...

The Individual and Society: A Comparison of the Ideas of Burke, Mill and Marx

someone who believed in totalitarian government either. White (2002) remarks: "Whether in regard to the specific demands of the sa...

Conservatism vs. Liberalism: Evolution over Time

Burkes criticisms (Leemhuis, 2003). The "Rights of Men" series was an analysis of the historical basis for the roots of European ...

Dreyfus Affair's Impact on France

of poverty lived on. In the early twentieth century, there was a significant depression and French farmers were hit hardii. One c...

The French Revolution and Enlightenment Principles

his most famous sayings is "If God did not exist, he would have to be invented," which we can interpret to mean that man tends to ...

18th Century Jewish Population in France

In five pages this paper examines the French Jewry that existed during Napoleon's reign and considers religious communities in an ...

Modern Conservativism Founders Edmund Burke and Thomas Hobbes

In eight pages this paper discusses the views of Burke and Hobbes on government, man, and human nature with a comparison of their ...

Edmund Burke and Jean Jacques Rousseau's Politics

In seven pages this paper contrasts and compares the political views of Burke and Rousseau. Five sources are cited in the bibliog...

Beauty, the Sublime, Immanuel Kant, and Edmund Burke

and Kant. While both of these men had many critics, they raised points which even critics contended were worthy of the discussion...

Individualism, Society, and Political Ideology According to Alexis de Tocqueville, Edmund Burke, and Jean Jacques Rousseau

In six pages this paper examines how individualism, society, and political ideology are perceived by this trio of sociopolitical p...

Property as Defined by Edmund Burke and John Locke

to hold property" (Child, 1990, p. 578). For him, it was an inherent and instinctive part of human nature. In Chapter 5, "Of Pro...

French History and the Causes of the French Revolution

young age of five to his death, (1643 to 1715). His mother, however, made the actual decisions regarding the country until her de...

18th Century France's Revolution and Revolt

Similarly, in France, there would be drastic change as the people were fed up with the monarchy. They really wanted an enlightened...

Change and Continuity During the Sixteenth Through Eighteenth Centuries

war between France and Austria and Prussia, prices increased dramatically, and food shortages occurred" (Analysis of the French R...

The Industrial Revolution and the French Revolution

populations of such places as England and Germany and the United States seemed to increase, in France the population remained rela...

Combination of Economic and Political Themes in 'The Communist Manifesto'

in 5 pages, this essay combines the very themes that were considered within the contexts of the Industrial Revolution and the Fre...

The Cost of Political Revolutions

place, that the loss of life was not worth it. There is more validity in this second premise than in the first. Still, to determin...

Jackson J. Spielvogel on the French Revolution

In five pages this paper examines the French Revolution and its definitive traditions of revolution, reform, and restoration as co...

Eric J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution

In five pages this paper discusses French history at the time of its revolution in Eric J. Hobsbawm's The Age of Revolution. Ther...

French Revolution and Napoleon

Rather, they wanted what they called "enlightened despots" like Empress Catherine of Russia or Joseph II of Habsburg (18). They th...

Overview of the Algerian Revolution

In six pages the Algerian Revolution is examined in an overview of the French government, Algerian factions, and the events that l...

Cause and Effects of the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution

In five pages these revolutions are contrasted and compared in terms of their causes and the outcomes which resulted. There are 6...

Georges Jacques Danton's Significance in the French Revolution's Committee of Public Safety

was a difficult person to ignore, whether or not you believed in this theories. It was because of this huge popularity, however, ...

French Revolution's Financial Causes

brilliant people rising from this abyss" (book 3, ch 15) which would seem to indicate that Dickens held out some degree of optimis...

French Revolution's Influences

In five pages this paper discusses the influences of Marat, Jean Jacques Rousseau and Jacques Louis David and their radical concep...

American and French Revolutions' Similarities and Differences

come forth, but in France, the people just rocked the boat and lasting change would only come about through time. Yes, the extraor...

European Historical Signficance of Herder's Outlines of A Philosophy of the History of Man and Burke's Reflections on the Revolution in France

citizenry/monarchy relationship was, according to Burke, to secure the districts power over the people as a means by which to main...