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In The New Atlantis, Bacon used science as a way of helping humans restore what life was like in Eden. In The Second Treatise of Government, Locke uses government as a way of preserving the good parts of his proposed State of Nature and altering the less favorable qualities. In each of these texts, the author creates a utopia in which their new ideologies are implemented…

form their own nation one of the fundamental principles was equality, however; the founding fathers were hypocritical in the way they lived their lives as the majority of them preached equality yet owned slaves. In 1690 John Locke published Two Treatises of Government in which he describes his philosophies on how government should be formed and what happens when government takes too much power. Locke describes how equality and freedom are key parts of government by saying, “The state of nature…

During the Enlightenment Era, certain ideas such as The Second Treatise of Government by john Locke, Baron de Montesquieu, Spirit of the Laws, Jean Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract Virginia Declaration of Rights, Thomas Paine, Common Sense, The United States Constitution, and Declaration of Independence served as the main basis for the formation of the American Government in the late 18th century. The 18th century was the era when the Enlightenment climaxed in the French and American…

At the crux of Locke’s Second Treatise on Government is the idea that there is a natural law under which we all fall under, but in order to ensure these freedoms are protected from exploitation we create societies and governments. However, there is some grey area when it comes to determining whether or not a person has given consent to the government, and at what point the governmental system crosses the line in exercising its power and thereby loses its legitimacy and can rightfully be…

In David Hume’s book A Treatise of Human Nature, Hume endeavors to investigate human nature through empirical means. By doing this, Hume is able to develop a moral theory that explores how we appraise and assign virtue, how we evaluate morals, and what is it is that drives actions. Ultimately, the empirical school of moral thought is promoted throughout A Treatise of Human Nature, while at the same time attacking rationalist moral theory. For the purpose of this paper, I will argue that Hume’s…

As one of the most important philosophers of the modern age, John Locke asserts this empowering aspect of property in his Second Treatise of Government. Though God gave the world to all creatures in common, “every man has a property in his own person” (p. 1). The body of a man belongs solely to him and he may harvest the work of his own hands. When a man labors to remove something from its natural state, no longer is it the common property of all mankind. It belongs exclusively to the man. The…

Per the teachings of John Locke in his Second Treatise of Government, man has “liberty to dispose of his person or possessions” in whatever way he would like to, so long as he does not destroy himself or anyone else (Locke 102). Following this philosophy, the government should not be allowed to require every citizen to give up two years of their limited time to live in civic service, no matter what virtues it may promote. Two years is a long time to give up to your government. The common…

and Montesquieu efforts told us that the government had a tight grip on the people. Locke big idea was the equality for the people. He talked about the government should only exist with the consent of free people. In his first statement of the Two Treatises of Government he discussed that people have their own freedom to do whatever they please but there is a certain limit to those freedoms. One of the biggest ideas from Locke was the social contract. The political doctrine has created four key…

In the Treatise on Happiness, St. Thomas Aquinas lays out his argument for the existence of an ultimate purpose to human life. He first argues that this ultimate end is applied to any one human being, followed by all human beings. An “end” is considered purpose, or that for which something exists. This argument will acknowledge all of Aquinas’s points up until he applies this ultimate end to the whole of humanity. Human beings do act towards an end, but this end cannot be considered universal.…

The philosophes believed in common that human freedom was necessary to improve a society. John Locke, the English philosophe, strongly believed that individual freedom was an important foundation of good government. As stated in his book, Second Treatise on Civil Government, all people were born free, had equal rights and had abilities to create their own government with legislative and executive functions. He also…