It's sad to see Prince Eugene like that. The channel you asked about before, HistoryMarche, actually started a series on Prince Eugene's career. If you wanna learn more I highly recommend it.
This series was very interesting to me personally. The conclusion, as always, gives you some interesting points for perspective. To bad you didn't finish it :(
5:27 Think you may be overestimating Voltaire's impact. Voltaire is called a "philosophe" but that was more of the name of a certain intellectual group in 1700s France that were associated with what we call today the Enlightenment. Voltaire was a fierce social critic, a playright, a poet, a writer of fiction and essays, but not much of a political philosopher like Plato or Rousseau (who was kind of his most famous rival) were. For instance, in four years of philosophy, I've never once used Voltaire as a reference. Rousseau, Kant or Montesquieu have come up dozens of time. Voltaire was influential because of what he criticized about Ancien Régime society, such as censorship, religious fanaticism and clericalism in general (he was a deist), persecutions of various kinds and anything he saw as backwardness. But he didn't really propose alternate regimes of government, except praising the British monarchy as a model of constitutionalism (while being close to absolute monarchs like Frederick II and Catherine II). People who really influenced French Revolutionary ideals and 19th-century liberalism were Rousseau and his "Social Contract", or Montesquieu through "The Spirit of the Laws" (distinction of powers, constitutionalism, etc). Also, when we talk about Enlightenment philosophers, we tend to project our notions of liberal democracy and republicanism on them, but a lot of Enlightenment philosophers were elitist (sometimes aristocrats who were anti-absolutist because they wanted power to go back to the nobles like in a feudal system), explicitly anti-democrats, pro-enlightened despots, and generally not what we'd think of as the staple of political liberalism.
i think you have a false vision of the holy roman empire, prussia was most certanly a kingdom, infact there were many kingdoms inside the HRE who were in theory all vassals of the holy roman emperor so prussia had been a kingdom for a while at that point in time just not the sort of kingdom that we are used to these days.
It's sad to see Prince Eugene like that. The channel you asked about before, HistoryMarche, actually started a series on Prince Eugene's career. If you wanna learn more I highly recommend it.
This is a great series but Part 5 is awesome.
This series was very interesting to me personally. The conclusion, as always, gives you some interesting points for perspective. To bad you didn't finish it :(
5:27 Think you may be overestimating Voltaire's impact. Voltaire is called a "philosophe" but that was more of the name of a certain intellectual group in 1700s France that were associated with what we call today the Enlightenment. Voltaire was a fierce social critic, a playright, a poet, a writer of fiction and essays, but not much of a political philosopher like Plato or Rousseau (who was kind of his most famous rival) were. For instance, in four years of philosophy, I've never once used Voltaire as a reference. Rousseau, Kant or Montesquieu have come up dozens of time.
Voltaire was influential because of what he criticized about Ancien Régime society, such as censorship, religious fanaticism and clericalism in general (he was a deist), persecutions of various kinds and anything he saw as backwardness. But he didn't really propose alternate regimes of government, except praising the British monarchy as a model of constitutionalism (while being close to absolute monarchs like Frederick II and Catherine II). People who really influenced French Revolutionary ideals and 19th-century liberalism were Rousseau and his "Social Contract", or Montesquieu through "The Spirit of the Laws" (distinction of powers, constitutionalism, etc).
Also, when we talk about Enlightenment philosophers, we tend to project our notions of liberal democracy and republicanism on them, but a lot of Enlightenment philosophers were elitist (sometimes aristocrats who were anti-absolutist because they wanted power to go back to the nobles like in a feudal system), explicitly anti-democrats, pro-enlightened despots, and generally not what we'd think of as the staple of political liberalism.
22:20 Me and the boys forming an alliance to partition Prussia
(I love when Extra History use memes)
i think you have a false vision of the holy roman empire, prussia was most certanly a kingdom, infact there were many kingdoms inside the HRE who were in theory all vassals of the holy roman emperor so prussia had been a kingdom for a while at that point in time just not the sort of kingdom that we are used to these days.