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    The enlightenment era arose in the modern cultural ideology of the 18th century‚ as ideas among philosophers had a widespread effect among the society. The age of enlightenment‚ in western society‚ projected the rejection of traditional Christianity‚ western philosophy‚ intellectual advances‚ scientific‚ and cultural life‚ government legitimacy and authority. Upon the enlightenment period multiple philosophers emerged‚ the individuals arose to leading figures using reason to understand all aspects

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    1. State of nature‚ defined differently by all of us according to our own understanding‚ made lots of importance to English philosophers like Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke‚ and Jean Jacques Rousseau. In the state of nature‚ there is no above authority or government for everyone’s safety and peaceful living; everyone is in their own matter‚ and there in no unity of people even living in the same city. Every individual is judge of their own deeds. Strong individual is allowed to crush the weak in any

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    century started to initially begin to form ideas of the purpose of education. These influential key thinkers such as John Locke‚ Mary Wollstonecraft and Jean-Jacques Rousseau had established concepts regarding the way learning should be carried out in education. Even with the works that have been carried out by numerous prominent key thinkers‚ views and opinions will be endlessly changing. In addition‚ with regards to the purpose of education‚ John Locke believed that “Children are like travellers

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    Daniel Dwyer Mykytyn‚ N. January 11‚ 2013 HZT 4U1-01 John Locke’s Some Thoughts Concerning Education John Locke‚ famous sixteenth century philosopher and “Father of Classical Liberalism” wrote a work based on the human mind and learning methods entitled Some Thoughts Concerning Education. This work outlines Locke’s views on how the brain absorbs and remembers new ideas through a theory known as the “tabula rasa” or blank slate. This theory constitutes that humans are born with a blank

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    5 March 28‚ 2012 John Locke John Locke‚ an English philosopher‚ used the idea of natural laws to make vital contributions to society. He worked his way up through Westminster School and Oxford and enrolled in the Church of England. He was interested in science and became one of the best practitioners of his time. With Locke’s connections‚ he met men of England but was also suspected for being disloyal. He went to Holland and returned in 1688‚ after the revolution. Locke made an influence

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    S.D. John Locke John Locke was one of the most important and influential philosophers ever in history‚ which he expressed through writing. John Locke was born on August 29‚ 1632 to John Locke and Agnes Keene‚ in a cottage by the church in Wrington‚ in the English county of Somerset. Immediately after he was born he was baptized. Both of his parents were Puritans and he was raised that way. His father was a country lawyer and a military man‚ in which he was a captain during the English Civil

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    on how the country should be govern. During this time two individuals published their thoughts on the issue. Thomas Hobbes believed that humans were in a social contract with the government. On the other hand John Locke believed that human were natural liberals. Both had very different ideas on how the nation should be govern. First‚ Thomas Hobbes thoughts of the nations were that it resembled the movement of the solar system “-a people orbiting their ruler.” (Sayre 338). In his publication Hobbes

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    John Locke Western Civilization encompasses many new innovations‚ theories‚ and discoveries. However only the greatest people‚ events‚ and concepts of Western Civilization are still known and used today. In my opinion one of the most influential people of this time period is John Locke. Locke discovered multiple breakthroughs on natural law that still have a great impact on our modern society. John Locke was born August 29‚ 1632‚ in Wrington‚ a small village

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    David Hume and John Locke were both well known radical empiricists of their time. They were more radical because not only did believe in empiricism‚ but they strongly disagreed with innatism. Locke even went as far as to spend his entire book I in his “ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING” attacking innatism. They not only believe that all ideas derive from experience but they strongly oppose innatism. Descartes believed in innatism‚ that we are born with ideas and knowledge in our minds already

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    Thomas Hobbes‚ John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau are three vital political thinkers who have made a distinctive contribution and finest exemplar to the idea on state of nature and the social contract. Prior to the establishment of the social contract‚ men lived in the condition termed as the state of nature. Heywood (2013) defines state of nature as a society without the presence of any political authority and of legal checks on each individual to regulate them. These political thinkers however

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