Napoleon Bonaparte
After visiting the Napoleon Museum in Corsica,
I feel disappointed that the legacy of this great being in this museum does not
at all highlight the great contributions he made to our modern Western
civilization. It was not mentioned at all.
Without Napoleon's law book - Code
Napoleon - the privileges of the nobility and clergy in Europe might not
have been abolished.
In
addition, he canceled all debts and freed entrepreneurs who had gone bankrupt
from being stuck in debt chambers, so that they could instead use the
experience they had gained to start new businesses. As a result, France's
economy recovered so that the standard of living rose significantly - Thanks to
this, the French people loved him, which resulted in a large majority of voters
voting for him to become their emperor.
It was thanks to Napoleon that the ideas of
the American Revolution landed in Europe and that the new civilization (modern
democracy) that was created there spread to us.
Socrates had (ref: Plato's dialogue REPUBLIC)
predicted that: There may come a day in
the future when philosophers write a constitution, which lays the foundation
for a better civilization. – That is precisely what happened when the
American founding fathers (They had all studied Plato's dialogue REPUBLIC) wrote
the American Constitution in 1787 – Then the foundation for modern Western
democratic civilization was laid.
As Winston Churchill said: Democracy is the
least bad political system we have. A benevolent dictatorship is perhaps a
better system, but arranging sensible successors has proven to be almost
impossible.
Todde
