Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean Jaques Rousseau were three enlightenment thinkers who each drafted different ideas about the state of nature, and political solutions to make society and government more utopia-like. ... Unlike Hobbes' dim view of human nature, John Locke believed that all humans are born a blank slate that is shaped by one's experiences, and advocated that humans should be governed by a representative democracy that protects their three fundamental rights to life, liberty, and property. ... Locke thought that one's life and societal experiences shaped whether...

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These theorists John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau both analyze these ideas and declare that man subjects themselves to government by creating a social contract amongst themselves. ... Locke also declares that people are born like a blank slate and are innocent. ... Rousseau differs from Locke slightly in his belief of how man behaves in a state of nature. ... Locke differs from Rousseau in this way that Locke believes it is beneficial to have different specialized parts of the government that all come together to make decisions. ... Philosophers John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, altho...

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Locke and Rousseau were two great philosophers of the Enlightenment. ... Rousseau and Locke begin their work on political theory with a discussion on the state of nature. ... According to Locke this Law of Reason restrains men from infringing on the rights of others. ... Rousseau would argue that reason is an evil itself and therefore Locke's State of Nature is flawed. As with Rousseau before, we must question how Locke's State of Nature becomes today's society. ...

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John Locke emphasized that, we should all have natural rights to life, liberty, and property in order to have a strong good working government. Locke stated, "for society can never lose native [natural] and original right it has to preserve itself, which can only be done by a settled legislative, and a fair and impartial execution of the laws made by it....

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John Locke's Two Treaties on Government written in 1694 were the root of political ideas that developed during the Enlightenment. ... Locke saw humans as good, rational, social, cooperative, and tolerant. ... Locke promoted the idea that when every individual pursues happiness, cooperation is promoted causing individual and general welfare to coincide. ... Jean-Jacques Rousseau was another French political thinker of the Enlightenment era inspired by Locke. ... Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau were three political thinkers who ideas flourished in the Enlightenment. ...

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Social contract theorist John Locke argued that governments" major responsibility was the preservation of private property and that men were born equal and with equal rights in nature; these rights cannot be annulled by any person or any thing. The three major characteristics of American government can be attributed to Locke. Popular consent, popular sovereignty and limited government can all be traced back to Locke's social contract theory. ... Locke understood the need of consent to preserve a legitimate government. ... Take for example, Locke's vision that all men were entitled...

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John Locke and Thomas Hobbes can be considered the fathers of the liberal doctrine. ... John Locke can be considered the first and greatest exponent of political liberalism. ... (Locke, 1821). ... (Locke, 1821). ... John Stuart Mill is another author who has exposed his theory about govern, democracy and political representation. ...

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