Allegory Of The Cave By John Locke And Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Emma Lazarus once said, “Until we are all free, we are none of us free.", this first section in politics class revolved around the idea of freedom, the roles of government, and our responses to a tyrannical government. We read a multitude of different selections and watched a speech from Jesse Williams in this year 's BET Awards. All of the things we read and watched connects back to the idea freedom. In all of the readings the authors talk about their interpretations of freedom. The struggle of freedom is persistent to this day from John Locke to Jesse Williams. We all interpret freedom differently today rather it 's the freedom not to go bankrupt from health care bills, own an AK-47, or being a black man and being able to walk freely without getting killed by the police. The idea of freedom has progressed in modern history, but in the last century that freedom has not been applied equally. John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau were two men who talked about the role of the government. Locke wrote heavily about the right to own property. He said that the sole responsibility of government was to preserve the right of property. He also talked about a social contract and how we leave that state of nature to …show more content…
Plato in “Allegory of the Cave” talks about freedom. This talk about a human condition we have to not fully accept freedom. We also read Frederick Douglass’ “What A Slaves Fourth of July?”, which talked about the inequality of the freedom applied and purposely said in the speech “your freedom”, purposely separating the freedom applied to white and black people and calling out the injustice with the law. Locke would be outraged by this because in his writing, he talked about slavery being unacceptable at all times. Booker T Washington talks about economic freedom and Du Bois talks about social freedoms, this shows the way we have seen freedom differently and how the idea of free evolved over