What Is John Locke's Idea Of The Enlightenment

The act of Enlightenment was about seeking truth though observation and logic and was aimed toward giving people new voices and rights. such as natural rights, John Locke is well-known for claiming every human has certain rights not given to them by the law or society. Things such as freedom, privacy, life and owning property. Social Contract - Again Locke, but also prominent in Jean-Jaques Rousseau's writings. A political philosophy which claims that the government and people are bound under a contract, the government protects the people's natural rights and, in return, the people allow the government to rule. Or at least that was what was supposed to happen. And revolution If the government fails to protect the people's natural rights, Locke argued that it is essentially obligatory for the people to revolt. Then finally reason the ideas of the enlightenment are supported by reason, differing from previous eras which relied on supernatural and spiritual justifications such as plato and
The citizens of the Third Estate of france (made up of peasants) wanted equality, though some wanted greater levels of equality than others. The rising bourgeoisie wanted political and social equality with the nobility of the Second Estate. They favoured a meritocracy: a society where rank and status were defined by ability and achievement, rather than birthright and privilege. But the bourgeoisie were more reluctant about sharing political equality with the lower ranks of the Third Estate. They did not support universal voting rights, believing voting to be a privilege of the propertied classes. The French Revolution of 1789 was the culmination of the High Enlightenment vision of throwing out the old authorities to remake society along rational lines, but it devolved into bloody terror that showed the limits of its own ideas and led, a decade later, to the rise of