John Locke And Adam Smith

The Enlightenment introduced new forms of thinking as well as new philosophers who wrote especially on the topic of liberty and freedom as well as equality. During that period of time, writers wrote to reform the view on the rights of men and for the search to create a better society. Their ideas focused on the power of the people and the search a non restrictive government. These writers provided arguments for new reforms and policies in society and politics. Writers that wrote about this is however too long to list are in this case John Locke, Montesquieu, and Adam Smith greatly influenced society in its thought on the infrangible state of men and how the conduct of society should be operated for the general public. These writers affected …show more content…
His work Two Treatises on Government included the politics of the Enlightenment as well as his own thoughts on the government's role in society. Rather than the belief in the absolute monarch, instead John Locke believed the subjects had the right to form new governments. His works criticized the abusive and corrupt governments. Locke’s writing greatly advocated for a more representative government which swiftly after lead to revolution. John Locke essentially believed that there was a contract between the ruler and the ruled. Theoretically this contract limited the rulers powers as long as John Locke puts it “man is to be free and enjoy their natural freedom from any superior power on earth.” This concept became prevalent in documents even in the American Constitution and many similar revolutions including especially the French revolution. John Locke’s work most exemplified the ideal of majority rule and compared to other unenlightened philosophers rejected divine right of the king. All men had inalienable rights and the king with his jurisdiction had no power over what the governed without their consent. Without a doubt he believed that people have the rights to overthrow their government and change their government if it did not protect the rights of men. His works most likely still affect …show more content…
These writers collectively performed the task in leading the movement for the liberty and the unshakable rhetoric in the freedom of men to serve their best interests and for them to access their own lives. People create a government not to be restrained and to be held back against the interest of the people, but for the general will of the people. No man exists to be unequal to one another. They are all united under the enlightened thinkers and this is what eventually causes and leads to the revolutions of the enlightened era. A man has only rights to himself and that causes the chain of revolution that took place after place as he is a man and shall not be under the will or legislative authority of man as John Locke wrote. Man is free from any superior power on earth and all men have natural liberties natural to them. Without the enlightened thinkers that penned these words down it is likely that few men would have rose up to the absolute rulers who without them failed in explaining the necessity of fighting for the freedom of men that would likely have been killed or silenced for their treachery against the absolute rulers of the time. Due to the nature of these writings the people not only justified, but ultimately bettered their lives and countries in the process due to the nature of balance of men in government for their