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That's correct. There's some integration of older legal concepts, but broadly our society is based on enlightenment institutions.
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freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 1y ago

A slight modifcation to that popular thesis... the enlightenment took the conclusions and jettisoned the theology from which it was derived

The Reformation of Rights: Law, Religion and Human Rights in Early Modern Calvinism https://a.co/d/iK3zdxY

interesting read #bookstr

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sachin 1y ago

I'm saying this based on other people's accounts, didn't Locke's articulations have a theological bent to them?