subjects think freely. Most of the times‚ Kant venerated the sovereign of his time Frederick the Great of Prussia for his enlighten way of thinking and his tolerance for philosophes. Immanuel Kant thought of enlightenment as way of maturity‚ as freedom and a right of mankind. He believed that enlightenment could improve human life. Even though he did not speak against the government in Prussia‚ his idea of’ Dare to Know” was still useful because it urged people to find enlightenment and better themselves
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Maslov 1 Tori Maslov Mrs. Stewart World History Honors 9 Due January 23rd‚ 2014 The Impact of the French Revolution From the fall of the Bastille to the Reign of Terror‚ the events that occurred during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of France impacted Europe in outstanding ways‚ creating social and political changes that could not be reversed. The Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars of France were a great impact on world history because it awakened nationalism‚ it brought forth stronger
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World War I couldn’t have ended any worse. The way it was handled was wrong and as a result of that‚ a war even worse than before broke out. The three main causes of World War II were the ways France‚ Britain‚ and Germany handled it diplomatically‚ socially‚ and financially. There are sources that show the actions taken by the countries. After World War I France had made a treaty with the country of Poland that states if either country is attacked‚ the other will send aid and assistance via money
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1820s the Congress System collapsed. Britain refused to attend the meetings‚ believing that the original purpose of the co-operative process had been betrayed by Powers who sought to use their combined strength for selfish ends. Austria‚ Russia and Prussia were subject to their own rivalries and found it difficult to co-operate effectively on the issues which faced them. Holy Alliance Encouraged by the religious zealot Baroness von Krüdener‚ Alexander looked to involve his fellow sovereigns
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The German Experience Similar to the rebellious child who craves freedom from his controlling parents‚ the 18th century presented liberal ideas throughout Europe causing people to question monarchial rule. The American Revolution sought to break ties with England and begin an independent nation-state. The French Revolution‚ alike‚ sought to destroy the traditional authority and explore the liberalities of democracy. The idea of an independence from state spread throughout the world‚ making the common
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that finally industrialized and new powers were the most dominant. The way the countries changed affects us today. We have socialists‚ communists‚ conservatives‚ and liberalists all living in almost perfect harmony. At the end of the 19th century‚ Prussia and Great Britain were the most dominate world
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between the sixteenth and the eighteenth century states that were once powerful fell in rank‚ namely Spain‚ Sweden‚ the Netherlands‚ and the Ottoman Empire. This led to the rise of the new great powers such as Austria-Hungary‚ England‚ France‚ Prussia‚ and Russia. Factors to their rise were their
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During the early months of the Republic‚ the Convection put Luis XVI on trail as a traitor to France. By early 1793 danger threatened France on all sides The country was at war with much of Europe including Britain‚ the Netherlands‚ Spain‚ and Prussia. To deal with the threats to France the Convention created the Committee of Public Safety. The committee prepared France for all out war issuing a
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of Austria‚ threatened Napoleon’s power‚ so he defeated them both in the Battle of Austerlitz 1805. Napoleon continued to redraw and reorganize Germany in 1806‚ when the German Confederation of the Rhine made to control Western Germany‚ which made Prussia declare war‚ but was defeated at the Battles of Jena and Auerstadt; Russia came to Prussia’s aid‚ but was also defeated and both made peace to France at the Treaties of Tilsit 1807‚ which restricted more of Britain’s economy and controlled more of
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Pragmatism was a philosophical tradition that originated in the United States around 1870. The most important of the ‘classical pragmatists’ were Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914)‚ William James (1842–1910) and John Dewey (1859-1952). The influence of pragmatism declined during the first two thirds of the twentieth century‚ but it has undergone a revival since the 1970s with philosophers being increasingly willing to use the writings and ideas of the classical pragmatists‚ and also a number of thinkers
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