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The French Revolution

The French Revolution was an unstable, blood-filled time. With 20,000 sent to the

guillotine and an equal number to prison, it is not hard to find importance but rather to

find meaning. The most crucial thing to look for in the revolution is justification, reasons

that excuse or bring significance to the deaths of many. John Locke, a philosophe of the

time, may have argued that a leader who does not provide his people with inalienable

rights is grounds for dismissal in the form of regicide1. On the other hand Thomas

Hobbes, also a philosopher, may have taken a different argument. It was his belief that

‘man is a brute', therefore he needs a dictator to keep the peace. John Locke's idealistic

view point if practiced properly could have provided the lower class of France with

equality, something the were desperately in need of. The Thomas Hobbes approach

which advocates control, could not have provided the people with such liberation, but in

theory should be able to......


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