Foundations of Western Civilization II: A History of the Modern Western World

Enlightenment & Despotism (1x17)

Data emisji: Sty 01, 2006

European thinkers such as Voltaire, Diderot, Montesquieu, and Rousseau expand the ideas of Locke and others in a movement that comes to be known as the Enlightenment. When even enlightened monarchs fail to change their societies, some Europeans begin to consider an alternative: revolution.