What did the philosophers of the Enlightenment seek to understand?
The key idea of John Locke’s Enlightenment theory was to protect and enhance the freedoms and rights of
Enlightenment thinking on government included
What must people provide in order to be governed under a social contract?
Which term is synonymous with “natural rights,” according to Enlightenment philosophers?
Read the quote by Thomas Hobbes.Law was brought into the world for nothing else but to limit the natural liberty of particular men in such manner as they might not hurt but assist one another and join together against a common enemy.
John Locke believed that natural rights
Locke argued that all humans are born with what natural rights?
Thomas Hobbes’s belief that every country should have the ultimate power over itself is known as
Read the quote from John Locke."…no one [or government] ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions…and may not, unless it be to do justice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preservation of the life, liberty, health, limb, or goods of another…"According to the quote, Locke believed that government’s main purpose is to
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