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Byronic heroes
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Believed they were superior to the rest of society and viewed others with disdain.
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Diderot
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Was a Philosophe
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Hobbes, Locke, Herder
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Were not philosophes
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Mercantilism
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A theory in which governments must intervene to create national wealth by whatever means possible.
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In "A Hero of our Time", Lermontov critiqued...
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"The vices of our whole generation in their ultimate development."
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What argument did Jean-Jacques Rousseau make in his book "The Social Contract"?
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Individual moral freedom can be achieved only by learning to subject one's individual will to the good of the community.
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Johann Herder argued that...
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Language was a unique expression of a people.
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_____ wrote "The Wealth of Nations."
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Smith.
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The "new paternalism" of the Napoleonic state saw...
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Employer-employee relationships regulated and workers' organizations prohibited.
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The Philosophes were:
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Writers and thinkers who wished to reform society and humanity.
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What applied to "A Hero of Our Times"?
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- The main character is a "Byronic hero"- It deals with important Romantic themes- It does not follow a logical chronological order
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In "The Spirit of the Laws", Montesquieu concluded that:
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No single set of political laws applied to all people at all times in all places.
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According to Rousseau's "The Social Contract"...
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People should live in accordance with the general will.
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Who were the "physiocrats"?
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A group of economists who urged the French government to deregulate the grain trade and reform the tax system.
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"Enlightened Absolutism"
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Advocated the rational centralization of absolutist power at the expense of lesser centers of power.
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