The Jeffersonian Enlightenments
The idea of feeling anxiety about one’s time is not a unique occurrence. People have felt this way for generations. Individuals have always been quite hopeful in their mission for more progress. These dreamers and doers are usually highly creative and educated. There are periods of time that allow many intellectuals to contribute to the advancement of society. One of these such times is the Enlightenment. Through politics, economics, and society, these philosophers wrote on every subject from equality to religion. One of the most notable Enlighten thinker is Thomas Jefferson. The statesman and planter left a legacy that had further reaching consequences than he realized. His remarkable political career stemmed …show more content…
They may feel as if their human rights are being violated. According to Jefferson, the government has to be accountable with these failings. For him, the people give up some of their rights to from an entity to protect their basic human rights. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson writes “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” (para. 2). He was not the only one advocating for a government of the people. One of the planter’s contemporaries was John Locke. The British thinker wrote the Two Treatises of Government in the later Seventh Century. In it Locke also called for a form of government in which it would be responsible of securing its citizens natural rights. The rights he wrote about had to do with life, liberty, and property. Jefferson had similar conclusion about natural rights. He said that everyone has “….certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The difference between his definition and Locke’s definition of human rights may come down to that Jefferson was essentially ‘business owner’ in agriculture. The idea of the pursuit of happiness may also include property making Jefferson and Locke’s writing similar. Their legacy provided the basis for human rights
The idea of feeling anxiety about one’s time is not a unique occurrence. People have felt this way for generations. Individuals have always been quite hopeful in their mission for more progress. These dreamers and doers are usually highly creative and educated. There are periods of time that allow many intellectuals to contribute to the advancement of society. One of these such times is the Enlightenment. Through politics, economics, and society, these philosophers wrote on every subject from equality to religion. One of the most notable Enlighten thinker is Thomas Jefferson. The statesman and planter left a legacy that had further reaching consequences than he realized. His remarkable political career stemmed …show more content…
They may feel as if their human rights are being violated. According to Jefferson, the government has to be accountable with these failings. For him, the people give up some of their rights to from an entity to protect their basic human rights. In the Declaration of Independence, Jefferson writes “That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed” (para. 2). He was not the only one advocating for a government of the people. One of the planter’s contemporaries was John Locke. The British thinker wrote the Two Treatises of Government in the later Seventh Century. In it Locke also called for a form of government in which it would be responsible of securing its citizens natural rights. The rights he wrote about had to do with life, liberty, and property. Jefferson had similar conclusion about natural rights. He said that everyone has “….certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.” The difference between his definition and Locke’s definition of human rights may come down to that Jefferson was essentially ‘business owner’ in agriculture. The idea of the pursuit of happiness may also include property making Jefferson and Locke’s writing similar. Their legacy provided the basis for human rights