Out of this period came five concepts-reasons (English thinkers believed truth can be discovered by it), laws of nature govern everything (Natural Laws), happiness of mankind (anyone who lived by the natural laws received it), progress in society, and liberty (society could be set free). ... This was so because in his writing of "Two Treaties on Government- it was stated that people were born free with natural rights-life, liberty, and property. ... He wrote more than 70 books stating his ideas on political essays, philosophy, history, fiction, and drama. ... In conclusion, Locke and Voltaire ...

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Without free will, the determination and direction for man to exist becomes of lesser reason and cause. ... The ideal of free speech is a fine example of the mixing of both order with liberty, to compromise the amount of freedom allowed among the people. Free speech has been documented in American history since the conception of the United States constitution. ... The censorship of language in the media, through television, books, magazines and the internet shows how much order is placed onto a freedom that is made to be extremely important and placed first on the bill of rights. .....

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The name, Pierre Marteau, was used by Dutch publishing houses in books that were being published anonymously in order to misdirect censors and authorities who would have otherwise suppressed these books. ... One of the books targeted the Catholic clergy, and more specifically, Capuchin monks who were said to "run a 'university of cuckoldry'" (p38), while other books attacked Marie Antoinette for her lavish lifestyle and Louis XIV declaring that the revocation of the Edict of Nantes would "be his undoing" (p39). Corruption in the French government and in the Churc...

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The government can now know everything from your bank account balance to what books you check out at the library. ... If this is how the country is going to be run from now on, how can this be the land of the free and the home of the brave? ...

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was an influential French political philosopher and educationist in the Enlightenment time. Rousseau's profound insight can be found in almost every part of modern philosophy today. Born in a poor family in countryside, Rousseau had no formal education. His mother died after h...

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With the invention of the printing press, books were more obtainable, which led to a more educated society. ... They include the cheaper manufacture of paper, the increased availability of printed books, the growing number of libraries, and the growing use of the vernacular languages for literary, business, administrative, and legal purposes. ... There were some boarding and private schools that were supported by religious groups and state authorities, making them tuition free. ... Other politicians were creating new types of government rule, and were showing their opinion through books. ...

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The society censors the views of the society, but a few still manage to know the truths about books and are able to attempt to rise against the government. ... Socrates believes that he can create a society that is free from crime and has perfect citizens. ...

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While one is free, another is bound by rules. ... Rousseau feels that in order to be free, you must first agree to it. ... "The problem is to find a form of association which will defend and protect with the whole common force the person and goods of each associate, and in which each, while uniting himself with all, may still obey himself alone and remain as free as before." ... He reads books in his home that introduce the word "I" to him which he has never heard or used before. ...

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As the years go by people tend to forget that we are so much freer than other countries. ... In America you are free to write or say what you want in any books, newspapers, TV program, movie, or new program without the fear of being put in jail, fined, or even killed. ...

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In the beginning of the article the author mentions that there are a select few books that he believes are a measure of classics. ... Violation of the clauses of trust by rulers frees the ruled is still in some ways practiced today. ...

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Although he did not pay attention, he read many books and became familiar with the thinking of Rene Descartes. ... When William and Mary of Orange secured the throne, Locke was free to return to England. ...

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