I don't understand why John Locke isn't talked about a lot more while people discuss the history of ideas and political thought.
He was and is very influential, right?
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Property rights and self-ownership are very inconvenient ideas for those in power.
The impact of the enlightenment era on the world is far greater than I previously thought
Seems the ideas from that era form the fundamental base of the legal and political system of most liberal democracies today
That's correct. There's some integration of older legal concepts, but broadly our society is based on enlightenment institutions.
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
I'm saying this based on other people's accounts, didn't Locke's articulations have a theological bent to them?