and that was John Locke. Government should be run how John Locke argues because‚ the government should be fair‚ run where people have rights and freedoms‚ and provide equality for all. People should be able to control their lives and have a say on
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for your position. Out of all the political philosophers that I read about‚ I think Locke had the greatest influence on society and government today. John Locke influenced society with his idea that all babies are born “clean slates”. Even today‚ many people still believe that the environment in which a child grows up in is what forms him or her into the person they become later on in life. Another idea Locke had that influenced society was the belief regarding political freedom. Having political
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The Influence of John Locke John Locke was someone more than just an ordinary man. He was the son of a country attorney and born on August 29‚ 1632. He grew up during the civil war and later entered the Church of Christ‚ Oxford‚ where he remained as a student and teacher for many years. (Rivitch 23) With a wide variety of political and religious views‚ he expressed most of his personnel views on education and social and political philosophies. Once he noted the five
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John Locke’s influence in modern philosophy has been profound and‚ with his application of experimental analysis to ethics‚ politics‚ and religion‚ he remains one of the most important and controversial philosophers of all time. His ideas and writings lived way beyond his time‚ and have proven to be the reason the colonies broke away from their mother country and learned to expect certain rights from their government. In The Second Treatise of Government‚ Locke defines political power as the inalienable
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Christian Thogolith Professor kasiano Paul EN 108 Intro to Philosophy 21 April 2015 John Locke “Rationalism is the thought that appeals to reason or intellect a primary or fundamental source of knowledge or justification.” “It is typically contrasted with empiricism‚ which appeals to sensory experience as a primary or fundamental source of knowledge or justification.” John Locke argues that‚ “We come to this world knowing nothing whatsoever.” (Warburton 74). He believes that experience teaches
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The views of John Locke on the topic of slavery vary drastically from the actual events that took place in the United States. The experiences of Fredrick Douglas give truth to this statement. In Locke ’s Second Treatise of Government‚ he expresses the freedom that all men should have as long as they abide by the common rule of the society. In actuality‚ slaves may have done nothing wrong‚ but their freedom was still taken away from them. John Locke believed slavery should be a form of punishment
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The Philosophies of Enlightenment: Compare and contrast views of John Locke and Thomas Hobbes The Enlightenment‚ also named the Age of reason‚ was an era for the period of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The term “Enlightenment” also specifically talks about a rational movement. Moreover‚ this movement provided a basis for the American and French Revolutions. During this period‚ philosophers started to realize that by using reason they can find answers to their questions and solutions
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the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. Out of this era came the spiritual view of Deism and the intellectual framework American and French Revolutions. The document that officially separated America from Britain was the Deceleration of independence‚ which was heavily influenced by the concepts of the Enlightenment and Rationalism. Through the analysis of the Deceleration of independence‚ one can conclude that America was shaped by the Rationalist ideas of Philosophe John Locke‚ Deism‚ and
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The medieval view was based on scholasticism‚ while deductive logic and reasoning was relayed on the church authority. Prior to the Scientific Revolution‚ learning was mostly obtained through the teaching by the Catholic church thus in powering them over the uneducated people. In the the Middle Ages‚ science was used to better understand the mysterious works of God‚ but mostly learning was based on superstition. The population in the Middle Ages were ignorant to astronomy‚ germs‚ and the unknown
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Enlightenment Philosophers – John Locke 7-2.3: Analyze the Enlightenment ideas of John Locke‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau‚ Montesquieu‚ and Voltaire that challenged absolutism and influenced the development of limited government. John Locke of England is considered one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Locke was influenced heavily by the Glorious Revolution‚ since he was British. Locke thought the state of nature was a good place where people would get along with one another
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