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1) John Locke //By Megan McKenzie and John Tatterfield//

John Locke was born in 1632 and died 1704. John Locke was an Oxford Scholar and physician. He was also an Economist and Ideologue. As John Locke said “Though the familiar use of the things about takes off our wonder; yet it cures not our ignorance.” (Locke) He wrote and thought about the human understanding, which aimed to determine the limits for human understanding. He wrote essays and in the essays he wrote his thoughts on the human understanding and what his own thoughts were and why he thinks what he did. Locke’s writing, Second Treatise, was one of his more influential work. It about the natural, like how things. They needed a rhyme and reason. The government should have had a reason why they did it instead of a myth and John Locke wanted to know why he had to follow the rules they made.

John Locke: The Philosopher of Freedom. 1997. Biographies. 

2) Thomas Hobbes //By Megan McKenzie and John Tatterfield//

He was born in 1588 and died in 1679. Hobbes is the most complete materialist of the 17th century. He denies the fact of Cartesian Dualism and he promotes mortality of the soul. He never agreed with the idea of “new” philosophy of Galileo and Gessendi. Hobbes wrote a book; Leviathan, which was about materialism vs. self-knowledge. He pretty much states that a human is a machine and that the political organization is fake. The organization is a artificial machine that ones off one thing and doesn’t know anything other than it. He thinks the government needs ideas to back up the laws they make, but the “Artificial Machine” is programmed to the one thing it was made to do. It wasn’t open to ideas and pretty much said if you defy the church you would die. He disagreed with this whole concept and the government should be the center power and shouldn’t have all the power.

Thomas Hobbes: Moral and Political Philosophy 2006. The internet encyclopedia of philosophy 