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How Did Condorcet Contribute To The Enlightenment

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At the end of the 18th century, Europe erupted a shocked the world revolution, this is the famous French revolution.This revolution is like a sharp sword, row away every shrouded in continental Europe over heavy feudal "iron curtain”. Although the revolution, which began operating in 1789 finally ended in napoleon proclaimed himself, finally it failed to achieve the goal of the establishment of a democratic republic, but, over the continent of feudal unfolds once was torn by the revolution, it is no longer to fill that hole, European irreversibly to the revolutionary road of again and again. During the French Revolution, there were many thinkers of the time that influenced the progress of the country. Therefore, The following I am going to discuss the …show more content…

He advocated a liberal economy , free and equal public instruction, constitutionalism, and equal rights for women and people of all races. In his the tenth stage of the book, Condorcet regard the future condition of the human species stated in three point: “the abolition of inequality between nations, the progress of equality within each nation, and the true perfection of man. (105)” He emphasized that only to be a good guide education is to correct aspects of the natural inequality, republicanism the nation needed enlightened citizens and education needed democracy to become truly public. In his opinion, democracy means the freedom of citizens, and ignorance is the source of the slavery, education make people living under the control of yourself, instead of under the leadership of the monarchy.Citizens must provide the necessary knowledge, exercise their rights of freedom and understanding and guarantee their right to legal, knowledge of according to their own inherent to determine their own behavior, to govern

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