"The most common related themes of freedom in todays society pertains to freedom of speech, freedom of press, and other freedoms we now take for granted stated in the Declaration of Independence. ... The specific course of action of a good will is duties, which Kant provides three different propositions about these duties. ... "Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law (pg. 30). " This simply means that as rational beings, we have to think about our actions through a universal concept, which focuses on if everyone was placed in...

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Social and technological change in the seventeenth century brought about the greatest change to a seemingly ordinary concept that everyone experiences everyday- thought. Never before had such an immense change in the thought processes of a mass group of people, quite possibly the world over, occurre...

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England began to fall into it's epic constitutional crisis when Locke was about two years old. ... In 1671, Locke started a deliberation group to talk about principles of morality and religion, with about half a dozen friends of his. ... Locke's influence apparent in the Bill of Rights, the constitutional separation of powers, and the Declaration of Independence. Meanwhile, in France, Voltaire had popularized Locke's ideas about how the separations of powers were expanded by Brandon de Montesquieu. Locke's doctrine of natural rights appeared at the beginning of the French...

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