How did John Locke’s background reflect Enlightenment Ideas?
How did John Locke’s background reflect Enlightenment Ideas?
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Locke’s background reflects Enlightenment ideas as he was a rationalist, empiricist, and critic of the Church. John Locke was a political philosopher who lived during the Enlightenment. His education was classical, with a concentration in Latin and Greek. Locke believed that people were born “blank slates” that had a tendency toward good.
He felt that people were truly left to their own devices by God. People were to find their own morality, and in doing so, were shaped by the environment they grew up in. Locke believed that humans were at their best when they could do what they wanted. This is where the idea that people should be free to do what they wanted came from.
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