The Story of John Locke-Parker Auchstaetter

The Enlightenment was a time of frequent question of society and government. John Locke was a free willed philosopher that was a doctor, and a scientist. John Locke lived through the Glorious Revolution. Locke believed that people had natural rights. Locke also saw Government as a contract of rulers and people being ruled. John Locke was the best philosopher who believed in a fair government that would protect the natural rights of his people.

John Locke was a philosopher that lived through the Glorious Revolution. The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, was the overthrow of King James II by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder (medieval function, which during the 16^th-18th centuries developed into a rare type of de facto hereditary head of state of the thus crowned republic of the Netherlands.) and William III of Orange-Nassau. John Locke also was a doctor and a scientist that did not believe in the Devine Right of Kings. He wrote a book that was called Two Treatises on Government. Since John Locke lived through the Glorious Revolution his ideas would be reasonable.

           

 John Locke lived through the Glorious Revolution, which had an impact in his views for society. The Glorious Revolution was the beginning of a time where everyone lived peacefully in a state of nature. Government should protect that people have natural rights like life, liberty, and happiness. A social contract protected their rights; the people could rebel if the

government disobeyed the contract. Since John Locke saw society as reasonable and cooperative but a contract would be successful.

             Locke saw that people didn’t need rules or restrictions. Locke thought that the purpose of government was to establish order in society. He saw government as a contract between rulers and the ruled. He said that rulers can stay in power as long as they have the consent of the people. People can rebel if the ruler is a tyrant or if he breaks the contract. Laws that limit what people can do should be made if it will protect them from something.

           

John Locke was in my opinion the best and I think he had the most views that we have this present day. He lived through the Glorious Revolution, so he has seen humans and society through one of the most peaceful times in English history. He said “It is a very difficult to be human without a society to teach on how to be human.” He thought that people could be peaceful on their own and didn’t need government to make rules and make everything difficult for the people who had a peaceful none worry life before government.