1. The Illusion of Utopia
... influential philosophers in the 17th century. Thomas Hobbes declared a horizontal covenant between citizens, "by mutual covenants with one another."" John Locke was an Englishman who wrote down many of the 'fundamental rights' that were later listed in the Declaration of Independence. Locke's idea of a tabula rasa' (clean or blank slate) for the natural man was greatly influential in that it meant that ... man makes his own destiny. Locke wanted to combine natural law and utilitarian philosophy. He said that the pre-industrial state of nature was a reasonable and moral place where men w...
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