Locke and Rousseau
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It's amazing the beliefs of one person can impact those of another, to begin a wonderful society in which we live in today. John Locke a famous Oxford scholar, medical researcher, physician, political operative, economist and a great philosopher of the late seventeenth and eighteenth century. Born in the year of 1632, in a community in Somerset named Wrington. That died in the year of 1704, but during his lifetime he had many interesting beliefs like another French deistic philosopher and author. Who is this other person you ask? His name is Jean Jacques Rousseau that was born a little after Locke in the year of 1712 in Geneva and died in 1788 with the same beliefs as Locke.
Both Locke and Rousseau believed in freedom strongly. But further more Locke believed that there are punishments and rewards for those that are good or bad, protection of a person's life, liberty and property. He adage the government as an establishment, who knew community well-being was important along with property commanding responsibilities on citizens. John saw all human beings as ethical, and pierced civil humanity to prove peace and sanctuary in a better way, with a certain amount of their individual power and free will...