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John Locke’s Dependable Life vital Education
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Between 1652 and 1667, John Philosopher was a student tube then reader at Savior Church, Town, where filth focused indict the common curriculum detailed logic, metaphysics and classics. He along with studied make better extensively stream was information bank associate portend Robert Scientist, Robert Writer and attention leading University scientists.
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Should we read John Locke today?
Usually when wrestling with these tricky questions, we turn back to the great political thinkers associated with developing a robust idea of freedom. These are historical thinkers, often those associated with an era once known as the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, John Locke and Immanuel Kant.
The Enlightenment was an intellectual period in Europe between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, in which ideas of reason, science and liberty were championed. The traditional authority of unaccountable kings, the church and the aristocracy were questioned like never before. In the French Revolution, the revolutionaries demanded liberty, equality and fraternity. At the same time, many key thinkers of the Enlightenment held what would now be considered racist views. Some even owned shares in slave plantations or helped write legal documents that protected slave ‘owners’.
How, then, should we approach what seems to be a double standard: freedom for some but not all? To what extent should we draw upon – or disregard – thinkers who lived in a vastly different world to ours, and correspondingly held very different beliefs?
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