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Conception du nouveau sigle d'Antenne 2. Sculpture monumentale pour le complexe sportif de Neuilly Hauts-de-Seine. A la France , tapisserie des Gobelins. Signal pour le C. Le Massacre des Le Paradis des orages. Reason and sentiment went hand-in-hand in their philosophy. It was stated without any proof that one of their number, Voltaire , had shares in the slave trade. At the time, there was a particular taste for compendia of "all knowledge". Published between and it aimed to lead people out of ignorance through the widest dissemination of knowledge. Anticlericism was not the only source of tension in France: A relaxing of morals fomented opinion against absolutism and the Ancient Order.
According to Dale K. Van Kley, Jansenism in France also became a source of division. The French judicial system showed itself to be outdated.
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Even though commercial law had become codified during the 17th century, there was no uniform, or codified, civil law. This social and legal background was criticised in works by the likes of Voltaire. Exiled in England between and , he studied the works of John Locke and Isaac Newton, and the English monarchy. For Voltaire, it was obvious that if the monarch can get the people to believe unreasonable things, then he can get them to do unreasonable things.
A contrary point of view that developed, arguing that such a process would be swayed by social conventions, leading to a "New Truth" based on reason that was but a poor imitation of the ideal and unassailable truth. At the same time, with various monarchs' reforms, there was a piecemeal attempt to redefine the order of society, and the relationship between monarch and subjects.
Kritik der praktischen Vernunft. Compared with the rather subjective metaphysics of Descartes, Kant developed a more objective viewpoint in this branch of philosophy. On the contrary, it is the advance of human reason that reveals this constant structure. Romanticism is the exact opposite of this stance. As the century grew older, more literature and art turned its back on free forms and a lightness of touch, regarding them as aristocratic and worldly. They turned towards the serious, the authentic and the natural, that fit the utilitarian morality of the bourgeois public whose taste was for neoclassicism: This resulted in reflections about urbanism.
This paradigm resulted in a change of style in the middle of the 18th century: Rococo was dismissed, Ancient Greece and Palladian architecture became the principal references for neoclassical architecture.
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That which is rational, and thus based in the understanding of nature, cannot be at the same time utopian. Le Discours sur la Servitude Volontaire. There was considerable coverage in the English and French Press, but less so in Germany and Italy; in Spain and Russia very few knew about it save a few intellectuals, senior officials and grand families participated in the movement.
The mass of the people could not care less: This did not stop at social and political upheaval: Thomas Jefferson had had a legal education but was equally at home with archaeology and architecture ; Benjamin Franklin had been a career diplomat and was a physicist. Condorcet wrote on subjects as wide-ranging as commerce, finance, education and science. The social origins of the philosophers were also diverse: Some had had a religious education Diderot, Louis de Jaucourt or one in the law Montesquieu, Jefferson. The philosophers formed networks and communicated in letters; the vitriolic correspondence between Rousseau and Voltaire is well known.
These thinkers and savants formed an international community.
Because they criticised the established order, the philosophers were chased by the authorities and had to resort to subterfuge to escape prison. In , Thomas Jefferson wrote a report on behalf of the Virginia delegates to the First Continental Congress , which was convened to discuss the grievances of Great Britain 's American colonies. Because its content, he could only publish it anonymously. From to , he went to many European countries. Faced with censorship and in financial difficulty, the philosophers often resorted to the protection of aristocrats and patrons: From to she held a fortnightly salon , inviting artists, intellectuals, men of letters and philosophers.
In the s, Voltaire exiled himself in England, where he absorbed Locke's ideas. The philosophers were, in general, less hostile to monarchical rule than they were to that of the clergy and the nobility. Philosophers such as d'Holbach were advocates of " enlightened absolutism " [21] in the hope that their ideas would spread more quickly if they had the approval of the Head of State. This process of dissemination of new ideas was increased by new methods of communication. Newspapers and the postal service allowed a more rapid exchange of ideas throughout Europe, resulting in a new form of cultural unity.
This intellectual movement supported the idea that there was a structural model of both scientific and moral knowledge, that this model was innate and that its expression was a form of human liberation. This raised questions on who should have the liberty to get hold of such information; the Press played an important role in the dissemination of ideas during the French Revolution.
Their defining characteristic was their intellectual mix; men would gather to express their views and satisfy their thirst for knowledge and to establish their world-view. But it was necessary to be "introduced" into these salons: Each hostess had her day, her speciality and her special guests.
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Talented men regularly decamped there to expound their ideas and test their latest work on a privileged public. Having strong, relatively liberated personalities, they were often writers and diarists themselves. Clergy and, to a lesser extent, nobility formed the majority of the membership.
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Their social composition shows that privileged men were less prominent than in Paris: Neighbouring academies, public libraries and lecture halls flourished, often involving the same enthusiastic men of learning. They were often supported by individual rich men, or funded by public subscription. They collected scientific works, the great dictionaries, had a lecture hall and, nearby, a discussion room.
All learned societies functioned as open salons and formed provincial, national and Europe-wide networks, exchanging books and letters, welcoming visiting members, and launching research and teaching programmes in subjects such as physics , chemistry , mineralogy , agronomy , and demography. At the start of the 19th century, Thomas Jefferson had one of the largest private libraries in the country.
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Of all the learned societies, the most advanced was that of the Freemasons , although restricted to the upper classes. God-fearing, tolerant, liberal, humanist, aesthetic. It took Europe by storm, where it had thousands of lodged by In civil, military and even religious walks of life, it did particularly well in becoming part of the State apparatus. Neither anticlerical which they became in the 19th century nor revolutionary, masonic lodges helped to expand on philosophical ideas and the spirit of reform in their political strategies.
Intellectual discussion took on an esoteric, or sectarian, nature. Masonic lodges, even more than the Academies, emphasised the importance of equality according to ability rather than privilege by birth. As they moved from town to town, they took their ideas and news with them, and could spread it by word of mouth to the illiterate. In the end, the Press helped form public opinion, in spite of the ever-present censorship. By cataloguing books and with subscriptions to learned societies, a public far from the centre of political activity could keep up with new ideas, discoveries and debates every month, if not every day.
By the end of the 17th century, John Locke had defined the separation of powers of government as between the executive branch and legislative branch. In the s attempts were made in England, Austria, Prussia and France to "rationalise" their monarchs and their laws. It propagated to the United States Constitution of Thomas Jefferson , a cultured and learned man and one of the original planters of the State of Virginia , was well known to the English philosopher John Locke, and the Genevan Jean-Jacques Rousseau. He presided over the drafting of the Constitution of Virginia in , from which he took certain parts when drafting the American Declaration of Independence , proclaimed on 4 July at the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia.
The United States Constitution restates Montesquieu's principle of the separation of powers into legislative , executive and judicial branches, which together form the foundations of modern democracy. During the French Revolution , philosophical ideas informed political debate.