John Locke's Idea Of Natural Rights

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During the late 1600’s people around the world started to believe in the power of reason and began to change their way of thinking about tradition. They also believed that logic could deal with any social, political, and economical problems. The Enlightenment was guided by Philosophers who wanted to change civilization. Philosophers usually would meet at salons to get together and exchange views about their thoughts. One of the famous Enlightenment ideals was John Locke’s idea of Natural Rights, who believed in life, liberty, and property. Enlightenment thinkers valued the idea of Natural Rights; the wide-spread influence of this ideal can be seen in the U.S. Constitution, Declaration of the Rights of Man, and Haitian Constitution of 1801. …show more content…

Adam had plans for the economy, which he thought that it was an individual improvement tool that didn’t need to be monitored by the government. He needed a plutocrat arrangement where business owners openly handled their own companies and people could deliberately go about their own inquisitions. Throughout the period of time Adam had written the Wealth Of Nations a lot of people thought that with the capitalist system Adam was advocating selfishness but he said that it was just a good way for people to try to benefit and keep their prosperity. People liked Adam’s concept on capitalism and the transformations had an important effect on management and made capitalism go about to the western part of the world. Now a day’s the U.S. benefits from capitalism a lot and shows that the outlook of industry is more capable and enticing over self