Absolute Rulers During The Enlightenment

A revolution is when a disagreement between the people and the government forms and the government is overthrown. The Enlightenment was the time when people focused more on science, building inventions, and overall advancing technology. Absolute rulers are rulers who want complete control over everyone and everything to gain as much power as possible. Revolutions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were due to the abuses of absolute rulers, the ideas of the Enlightenment, and the contradiction between absolute rulers and Enlightenment ideas.
The abuses of absolute rulers were the starting point of revolutions during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For example, Louis XVI of France became king at a very young so he had no experience. Although he was inexperienced, that is not an excuse for the countless amount of times he ignored the people’s needs and requests because he wanted control. For example, he ignored the people’s demands to enforce the

They were substantial contributors because the ideas of the Enlightenment were the complete opposite compared to the views of absolute rulers. For example, John Locke’s ideas about natural rights were very influential during the Enlightenment. He believed that everyone is born with natural rights; “Natural rights were life, liberty, and property, and that all people automatically earned these by simply being born”(Locke, John. "Natural rights." Moral Reasoning: A Philosophic Approach to Applied Ethics, Dryden Press, London (1990): 133-5.). This quote is saying if the citizens’ natural rights aren’t protected, they are obligated to overthrow that government and form a new one that does protect them. These ideas would lead to revolutions because the citizens would start a rebellion to overthrow a government that didn’t protect their natural rights, such as absolute