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John Locke was a British philosopher, Oxford academic and medical researcher. Locke grew up and lived through one of the most extraordinary centuries of English political and intellectual history.
John Locke
"Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set on work, and guided."
Two Treatises of Government, by English philosopher John Locke, was published in 1690. Locke argued that the human condition was improved by accepting a social contract under which the state protects its citizens subject to the consent of those who are governed. One of the leading Enlightenment thinkers, Locke inspired political leaders to rethink people's relationship to the state.h
John Lock created the “natural rights,” which are right that belong to all humans from birth; this included the right to life, liberty, and property. He constantly argued that people create governments to protect their natural right. The best kind of government, was limited power and it was accepted by all the citizens .
Locke proposed a radical idea about this time. A government has its duties or violates people’s natural rights, and the people have the right to overthrow that government. Locke’s idea would one day impact leaders of the American Revolution, such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. His ideas of the right of revolutions would also echo across Europe and Latin America in the centuries that followed.
BY ANJOLA AKANDE
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