John Locke Enlightenment

The Enlightenment was a time of discovery and innovation, for political and personal philosophy. The main purpose of the enlightenment was to understand the world through different approaches this was a time where knowledge was learned and gained throughout this time especially through a philosopher called John Locke who had ideas on freedom of religion and the rights of citizens and also wrote two books in order to show his points those books are called “Two Treatises of Civil Government” and “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding” where he starts to discuss political power, state of nature, difference between state of nature, and state of war, functioning of property and the way the government should be run in the “two treatises of civil government” and for “human understanding” Locke discusses three goals of this his ideas are to discover “where ideas come from” “to ascertain what it means to have these ideas and what an idea essentially is” and “to examine issues of faith and opinion to determine how we should proceed logically when our knowledge is limited”

Locke first starts his argument about State of Nature in his “two treatises of civil government” by going after Sir Robert Filmer and arguing that no one has control over another individual and natural law governs and renders everyone equal and everyone has the power of executive power and natural law Lockes’ argument was of a sort so he could fight against Sir Robert Filmer’s theory of divine right of sovereignty Locke states this by saying no one should confuse the different types of power which are paternal, familial, and political and for each of those powers are different characteristics Locke says political power is the right to make laws and the regulation of pr...

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...s he is hopeful that we all can come together and understand existence, and the properties of things that exist in the world.

John Locke’s accomplishments was writing the essay “Concerning Human Understanding” which was the theories of ideas and knowledge which was published in 1689 and his other accomplishment was “The Two Treatises of Civil Government” which is about the rights of individuals and the answer to political problems in England and gave the United States ideas for their own constitution and led to democracy and this was also published in 1690. Locke’s achievements helped to contribute a new way of living for people and a new way of thinking and a way of survival by saying they can get through life with and without authority and they have the right to challenge the authority that is in charge of them once they feel they are not being treated as people.