John Locke- an English philosopher in the 17-18th century. The significance was that John Locke was the advocate for the idea of popular sovereignty during the Enlightenment era which led to the American‚ French‚ Haitian‚ and Latin revolutions. Sepoys- Indian troops under British command in the 18th century. The significance is the sepoys were the cause of the Indian rebellion in 1857 that made formally transformed India into a British colony. Berlin Conference- a conference during (1884-1885)
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In 1689 John Locke wrote An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In his essay‚ he analyzes the human mind at the start of birth. He argues questions about how one thinks and perceives. He believes the mind starts out as a “tabula rasa‚” meaning a blank tablet‚ at birth and as we begin to experience things through our senses our mind begins to form. Author’s Viewpoint John Locke is considered one of the first British empiricists. Empiricisms is the belief that knowledge is from sense-experience
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In his book‚ “The Second Treatise of Civil Government”‚ John Locke discusses many parts of society. To me the most interesting discussion was his views on the state of nature and why we need government. Unlike Thomas Hobbes‚ who disliked the state of nature‚ Locke believed it to be an almost favorable environment for people to live in. Locke says in his book that all men can “order their actions‚ and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit‚ within the bounds of the law of nature”
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Thomas Hobbes and John Locke both sought to explain the behavior of humans in the purest form. In comparing and contrasting their theories‚ one begins to realize the extent to which these philosophers agreed and disagreed. While Hobbes states that human nature is malicious and requires a sovereign‚ Locke explains how humans are benelovant and pastoral with no motivation to advance. In Hobbes’ theory of a natural state‚ people live with no sense of government or law‚ forcing society into chaos and
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Both John Locke and Thomas Reid make captivating remarks about personal identity and its ability to either span effortlessly through time or encounter instances where personal identity undergoes modification no longer allowing personal identity to be maintained through time. Locke offers an interesting perspective as he so eloquently cites what he believes the word person to signify and what he believes personal identity to be composed of‚ in this case consciousness or as Reid prefers to call it
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state and only giving them enough power to protect the rights of their wellbeing. Hobbs states that once the people had given the power to the state that they had given up all their rights‚ which was the price that they would have to pay to be safe. Locke also believed that man lived in the “State of Nature” but it was different then Hobbs. Locke’s believed that it was peaceful‚ and that men did have rights. There was not an appointed
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In the eighteenth century philosophers John Locke and Francious-Marie Arouet.supported the idea of religious toleration. Locke philosophy was that people were born good or pure. According to Locke‚ people were generally good that they should be allowed more rights and freedoms. In which also his philosophy was that people were entitled to three natural rights (life‚ liberty‚ and own property which he defended. Locket said in the letter concerning toleration. “Civil interests I call life‚ liberty
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29th‚ 2013 Abstract: First‚ I explore John Locke’s conception of substance. After‚ I argue that Locke’s theory of substance is necessary for his theory of identity‚ and therefore philosophically vital for Locke’s ethical and political theories. I consider objections to Locke‚ but ultimately defend Locke’s theory of substance and its primacy in Locke’s overall philosophy through a different interpretive approach. Locke’s Substrata: John Locke’s doctrine of substratum—a metaphysical
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John Locke believes in the Imago Dei‚ that is the belief that humans are made in the image and likeness of God. Since humans are believed to be created in the image and likeness of God‚ Locke proposed that the value of the individual is justified by the authority of God. This means that God gave humans the exclusive right to their body and because there is value in their body then there is value in their labor. From this‚ Locke reasoned that people have a right to private property which is taking
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revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries helped to spread Enlightenment ideals and (p. 782) 2. Revolutionaries of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century (p. 783) 3. John Locke wrote the Second Treatise of Civil Government. Which of the following was not one of John Locke’s main ideas? (p. 783) 4. Which one of the following was not one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers? (p. 784) 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ in his Social Contract‚ argued that
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