Enlightenment Ideas The Enlightenment period in the late 17th to early 18th centuries emphasizing reason and to individualism rather than tradition. Its origins were from the outgrowth of the scientific revolution of the 1500 and 1600s, thinkers believed in the power of human reason and the perfectibility of mankind. In essence trust nature and man. Progress by the early 1700s, European thinkers felt that there was nothing beyond the reach of human mind and improvements could be made to human society. For example, John Locke argued that people formed governments to protect natural rights and that all humans are born with certain rights, These includes the right to life, liberty, and property. One of the most obvious examples of Locke's influence …show more content…
The state of nature clearly estates, they were born with certain naturals rights. Including in the real world, Locke felt they were a theoretical idea of nature. People couldn’t defend their rights very well. That is why they had to agree upon a contract with the government to protect their own rights. Every single person is equal in the sense that they are born with certain inalienable rights. That is, they are the glorious god given and can’t ever take or even given away. Among these underlying natural rights, Locke said, are “life, liberty, and property.” Locke strongly believed that the most fundamental human law of nature is the conservation of humanity. To perform that purpose, he reasoned that every single individual has both a right and a commitment to conserve their own lives. Assassins, however, they sacrifice their only proper to existence since they obey outside the regulation of cognition. He persuaded the offense deserves, even with death itself, in crimes wherein political society every one of the members “hath quitted this natural power, resigned it up into the hand of the community in all cases.” That excluded him from not from appealing for protection to the law established by