... opposed to those found in antiquity and the Middle Ages. Professor George Martin addresses the sources and nature of these changes. The clearest sixteenth-century defender of the older concepts of liberty was Richard Hooker, who maintained that liberty, properly exercised, requires men to act in conformance with the ... in the belief that a repudiation of such formalism ends the estrangement of individuals from one another. In the seventeenth-century, liberty was seen as freedom from restraint; thinkers rejected the previously held belief that liberty is to be used to achieve the good. Th...

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... one's self to the whole, and acknowledged that the deliberations of the people, driven by self-interest, might not always be responsible. Certain aspects of seventeenth century philosophy left room for human err, such as the easily influenced mind and its ability to misrepresent information, beside the already prevalent social tension amongst classes of ... yet now it was a beneficial necessity. Victorian liberals were individualists who, in pursuit of their own interests, contributed to a vast amount of progress in the nineteenth century. Tolerance for individualism also reinforced dist...

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Two brilliant philosophers of the seventeenth century developed theories on how humankind develops socially from the human state of nature. These theorists John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau both analyze these ideas and declare that man subjects ... is not protecting them correctly. Locke favored a representative government and mostly supported a monarchy, which historically correlates with when and where he wrote his Second Treatise, in England in the 17th century. Equality is very important to Locke amongst the government meaning that everyone has a vote and that there is a system of che...

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... about the government and the way it should be handled. It was certainly the case that tyranny has simulated breakthrough thinking about liberty. This was going on during the mid-seventeenth-century,which was an era of repression, rebellion, and civil war, and there is an outpouring of political pamphlets and tracts, the most influential writings came from John Locke. He his ... ...

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... evil, love and hate, or any other personality or character traits. This belief that a person's mind is a blank slate at birth is not a modern one. As early as the late seventeenth century, philosopher John Locke's theory of tabula rasa, "blank slate, "stated that "the human mind receives knowledge and forms itself based on experience alone, without any pre-existing innate ideas that ... ...

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Social and technological change in the seventeenth century brought about the greatest change to a seemingly ordinary concept that everyone experiences everyday- thought. Never before had such an immense change in the thought processes of a mass group of people, ... ...

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Social and technological change in the seventeenth century brought about the greatest change to a seemingly ordinary concept that everyone experiences everyday- thought. Never before had such an immense change in the thought processes of a mass group of people, ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate