Bourgeois revolutions

Bourgeois revolution

Refers to a social revolution that aims to destroy a feudal system or its vestiges, establish the rule of the bourgeoisie, and create a bourgeois state.

Bourgeois revolution

Bourgeoisie

• The social order that is dominated by the so-called middle class.
• Became important in the 18th century, when the middle class of professionals, manufacturers, and their literary and political allies began to demand an influence in politics consistent with their economic status.

• They are distinguished from, and traditionally contrasted with, the proletariat

Absolutism

Enlightened absolutism

Refers to the conduct and policies of European absolute monarchs during the 18th and early 19th centuries who were influenced by the ideas of the Enlightenment, espousing them to enhance their power.

Absolutism, the political doctrine and practice of unlimited centralized authority and absolute sovereignty, as vested especially in a monarch or dictator. .

Enlightenment

European intellectual movement of the 17th and 18th centuries in which ideas concerning God, reason, nature, and humanity were synthesized into a worldview that instigated revolutionary developments in art, philosophy, and politics.

LifeFreedom Property

Natural law

Political ideas

Defend men's rights Guarantee their freedom, their security and their property

State

"liberty, equality, fraternity"

Opposition to monarquical absolutism

Denis Diderot - Jean D' alambert

The Encyclopédie

Educating society

A better world

IgnoranceSuperstition Tyranny

Fighting against absolutism and the nobeltyStablished order

Burgeoise

Enlightenment

Get rid of superstitionAtheism Laicism Based on reason ---free will

AnthropocentrismIdealism Universalism

Isaac NewtonAdam Smith

State - Individual

Social contract

Independece from the pope

Regalism

Religion

Secularization

Separation of powers

PHILOSOPHY

SCIENCE

RELIGION

Enlightenment absolutism

POLITICS