and religious doctrines. John Locke was a British Enlightenment philosopher, he had a very big impact on the American Revolution and the colonists belief in self-government. John Locke believed that people had natural rights when they were born. He said that when someone was born they were free, equal, and had natural rights of life, liberty, and property and that rulers couldn’t take it away. John Locke’s ideas were constitutional and they challenged centuries of thinking, in regard of rulers and the people.…
John Locke wanted everyone to have the "right to life, liberty, and property" which is used in the Declaration of Independence as the "right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." His ideas of the social contract, in which everyone in a society is accountable to one another, and the idea of governments deriving their power from the consent of the governed were both revolutionary concepts in 1776 that made their way into the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution.…
John Locke was a European, enlightened thinker. Locke vouched for the natural rights of man and founded the idea of the social contract. The social contract…
Also Locke thought that people share the same natural rights, which are life, liberty, property. Life is referred to people fighting to survive. Liberty means that people want to be as free as possible to make their own decisions. Property represents the fact that people want to own things that help them survive, such as land and food and tools.…
A political principle of Locke and the Founding Fathers that I think should continue to be implemented today is his law called “State of Nature”. This law states that people should be kept the rights which they are born with which are life, liberty, and property. John Locke believed that human beings were born with certain divine rights, the right to live, the right to liberty, the right to good health etc. he argued that these rights alone, the "natural rights", are solely capable of maintaining a harmonious society. “The founders believed that upholding these rights should be the government's central purpose.” ( 29 Canon) The founders believed human beings are perfectly capable of governing themselves as the respect for human rights. It is…
Our Earth has been the home to a multitude of great thinkers. These thinkers were scattered throughout the generations from the Romans all the way to the 20th century; however, the time period with the most philosophers was the Enlightenment Age. During this time there were many thinkers such as Voltaire and Thomas Hobbes. One thinker in particular who contributed a great deal to history was John Locke. His work is still influencing the lives of people across the world 300 years later. He rethought the moral role of government, created a new theory of knowledge, introduced the use of reason, and reminded people of their natural rights. The combination of these four things made him the single most influential philosopher…
America made Locke’s idea less harsh by allowing people to complain to the government. The first amendment opened up the ability to change the government without overthrowing them. Locke also influenced the limited government. Petitioning the government dates back to even before America…
In John Locke’s time of influence, he made a strong impact on many people’s idea of life. He was a strong advocate for the idea that each human had a purpose and they are given many rights from their first breath. In the eyes of Locke, the Natural Rights Philosophy was that all living things should have laws pertaining to their own lives and these laws serve for the preservation of their existence and that no one should stand in the way of any human achieving these rights. In correspondence with him establishing these ideas, many people agreed with this theory and expanded upon it. The Declaration of Independence and the foundation of our Government had many strong connections with the ideas that Locke established in his Natural Rights Philosophy. With his views being exhibited to many, it was clear that he was very impactful to the Declaration of the Independence. Many topics stated in the Preamble were supportive and in favor of the viewpoints of Locke’s Natural Rights Philosophy.…
John Locke was an English philosopher and is believed to be one of the most influential Enlightenment thinkers. 17th-century Locke introduced the philosophy that humans agree to a social contract that allows the government to efficiently conduct society in harmony with natural law. He believes that without the control of the government, people would not behave in an acceptable manner and corrupt society. On contrary to the government, he felt the people should have the right to remove the government if they felt their natural rights were being threatened. Under natural law are natural rights. “Natural rights hold that because individuals are human beings capable of rational thinking and moral behavior, they are due all the rights one would have in the natural state.” Therefore Locke believed that all individuals are inherently good and created equally. This means individuals should innately be given natural rights which include: life, liberty, and property.…
John Locke argued that a legitimate government would be validated through the consent of the people it governed and protected, specifically the protection of a citizens natural rights of life, liberty, and estate. He also believed that citizens had the right of rebellion in the event that a government was acting against the rights and interests of its citizens, ultimately allowing those governed to replace the government with another in the interests of the people. Locke believed that the state of nature was that of happiness due to reason and tolerance. He argued that all people are equal and had no right to harm another's "life, liberty, or possessions." The state was formed by social contract because in the state of nature each was his own…
John Locke then wrote a revolutionary document titled Two Treatises of Government. This piece of literature introduced the idea that every person had the same right to liberty, life, and property. (Locke) In Locke’s paper he writes, “But though men, when they enter into society give up the equality, liberty, and executive power they had in the state of Nature into the hands of society . . . the power of the society or legislative constituted by them can never be supposed to extend farther than the common good.”…
John Locke says that a person is born with natural rights; the following rights are life, liberty, and property. He believed that the government should protect the people. Which means if the people have a democratic government they should be protected.…
Locke’s views of on the church and state followed those of Martin Luther. Locke also insisted on liberty of conscience and creator/redeemer distinction. Locke also had a great influence on the United States, considering that Charles II enlisted him along with Lord Shaftsbury to draft a constitution for the new colony, Carolina.…
His Essay on Human Understanding claimed the optimistic thought of tabula rasa, everyone is born with a blank slate. He also said that all ideas are derived from life experiences. John Locke also rejected the rule by divine right belief which led to new beliefs on ways to govern. In his essay he argued that sovereignty did not reside in the state but that it resided in the people. John Locke in his Second Treatise of Civil Government also spoke of natural rights of the people, which was extremely optimistic for the time. According to Locke, the three natural rights were life, liberty, and property. This optimistic belief meant that the monarchs had to give the people those three things. Locke also advocated the idea of a social contract in which the government serves the…
John Locke (1632-1704) is a Philosopher and Physician. He was known as one of the most affective Founding Father of Enlighten movement. Because of his past occupation, who used to persuade to become a doctor, he understood how people's lives, and what was the best form of government that they need. Locke's theories in the Second Treaty of Government and An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, and his State of Nature, for examples, have influenced people and government system with his belief of man's political nature that people have certain right in society and they willingly give up their highly valued autonomy in order to live peacefully and comfortable under one united government that enforces rules and regulation that protect its people…