The Enlightenment and the Great Awakening

2. John Locke . One of the great philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century.An Oxford scholar, medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and ideologue According to Locke, we can know with certainty that God exists. We can also know about morality with the same precision we know about mathematics, because we are the creators of moral and political ideas. He gives us the theory of natural law and natural rights which he uses to distinguish between 29

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