John Locke: The Universal Declaration Of Human Rights

When you hear the name John Locke, what do you think of? In your head you probably think, “Oh thank must be the guy who invented the lock!”. But in reality, John Locke is one of the reason you have so many rights. John Locke is a famous philosopher. He was born in 1632, in England. He thought all men were created equal, which many people disagreed then because most males thought they were superior to females and all African Americans. However, the fourteenth amendment protects former slaves. He also stated people have the right of liberty, property, and to live safely. Many ideas of his are in the universal declaration of human rights. His idea of the right of property is the main concept of article 3, along with having the right to …show more content…
This right is located within the first amendment (Ⅰ). This is also in article 18 of The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This freedom of religion in America attracts immigrants from all over the world. It was also one of the other reasons people settled here in America, even though they were Christians, they were protestant Christians that weren’t welcome in …show more content…
John Locke also wrote several books supporting his beliefs. One of which, is called Two Treatises of Government, it is John Locke’s most popular book. It was written in 1689. The first treatise is about him disagreeing with Robert Filmer, who says everyone is the is below the king, so basically his slave. John disagrees with this and writes his feelings about the topic into the book, so the first treatise acting as a one-person debate about Robert Filmer’s theory. The second treatise of the book in broken into 19 chapters about his philosophies and other things also. Another popular writing by John Locke is called An essay concerning human understanding. Even though it is titled “An essay”, it is actually a book. It is broken up into four parts and containing 33 chapters. Part 1 is about the philosophy of the origin of ideas. Part 2 is about the philosophy of knowledge. Part 3 is about how humans communicate their ideas. Part 4 is the philosophy about how everything around us influences our knowledge. John Locke also wrote “A letter concerning toleration”. In this he talks about his main philosophies in toleration. Those main points being freedom of religion. John Locke believed that everyone had the freedom of religion, as he also believed everyone was created equal, as I