How do individuals like the Marquis de Sade and Napoleon illustrate the excesses of the Enlightenment?
What will be an ideal response?
A. Excesses of the Enlightenment
1. Napoleon
a. Napoleon believed reason was a substitute for morality
b. he ruled a barbarian empire
c. detected opportunism and lack of general principles in his behavior
d. cruel police state operated wherever he ruled
e. made extensive changes to the state with complete rule
2. Marquis de Sade
a. revolutionary enthusiasm as a sham and his enlightened idealism as
hypocrisy
b. offenses included torturing, imprisoning, and poisoning prostitutes
c. sexual antics were a distortion of liberty, his egotism a warped
version of individualism
d. thought no instincts could be immoral because all are natural
e. thought no passions should be condemned, because chemical forces
in the body govern them
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