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- Have you ever wondered how we are born with a "blank mind"?
- Yes!! That has always been such an interesting topic.
- John Locke had argued on this idea during the Enlightenment
- Yes! In his Essay Concerning Human Understanding
- Locke suggested that people were molded by the experiences that came through their senses from the surrounding world!
- Have you heard about natural laws?
- Indeed. If all institutions would follow these laws, the result would be an ideal society
- Yes, the laws that Newton discovered?
- Following these laws, Montesquieu stated that England's government had 3 branches
- His system of checks and balances through separation of powers was his most lasting contribution to political thought.
- These democrat-republican principles were even incorporated into the United States Constitution.
- Have you heard of the founders of the modern social science of economics, the Physiocrats and Adam Smith?
- Yes, he gave the government 3 basic rules: the function of the army & the police, and it should keep up public works that private individuals alone couldn't afford
- Yes, didn't Adam Smith make a statement of laissez-faire in 1776 in his famous work, The Wealth of Nations?
- I can't believe that male intellectuals had argued that the nature of women made them inferior to men
- I know! But thanks to women like Mary Wollstonecraft, we, as women are no longer viewed that way.
- She pointed out that the power of men over women was equally wrong. She argued that the Enlightenment was based on an ideal of reason and human beings, therefore, women are entitled to the same rights as men.
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