John Locke and "The Enlightenment"

John Locke was one of the most important people during the enlightenment. John was a positive thinker of nature; he concluded that all humans were equal. According to John people should not let each other bet told what to do. He wanted people to do there things on there own will. John was a big influence to modern democracy. He proposed the 3 most important natural rights which are life, liberty and property.

John argued that government and authority were based on Natural law .The purpose of authority was to protect humanity and equality between all people. John’s argument and opinion were so strong that Thomas Jefferson support it and wrote about it in the Declaration of Independence. Jefferson explains how if the government ever fails doing his job then the people have the right to“abolish it and institute a new government.” He describes how all rights were given by god.

Everybody is born with the most important rights which are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. The government comes from the people because they have the right to choose who they want to rule there country. John Locke came up with human right and democracy. He believed that people should choose who they want to be ruled by. Thanks to John Locke we are all able to express our feelings and opinions toward our government. John’s idea of having people go against there government helped to inspire the revolution in Europe and America. His idea was that man can learn and improve through conscious effort. Locke tried to determine what the limits of human understanding were. As a result he established that we are all the creators of moral and political ideas.