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Absolutism And Enlightenment

The concepts of “Absolutism” and “Enlightenment” conflict because you cannot have one with the other with out problems. Absolutism is someone having complete power and control over something, while The Enlightenment is a philosophical movement that emphasized the use of reason to analyze previously accepted principles and traditions and that brought about many humanitarian reforms.
The two of these concepts cannot exist peacefully. While living in a country under the policies of absolutism, if a group of people starts to really think and analyze their government system and find there is something they don’t agree with they won’t be able to be heard by the leader without violence. Or if they just don’t like how things are run they are unable to protest without getting shot because the leader might fear a huge rebellion. A person from the enlightenment might realize that they should have more say in the country the live in and that it is wrong to put so much power in......


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