HUM 2 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Two Treatises Of Government, Mary Wollstonecraft, Immanuel Kant
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Published on 15 Jun 2020
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Hum 2
Culture of Ancient Greece and Rome
Thomas Hobbes
● “Humans are selfish, greedy, warlike”
● The only natural right is the right to preserve one’s life
● Leviathan (1651)
John Locke
● Humans are bestowed with God-given natural rights
● The right to “Life, health, liberty, and possessions”
● Thomas Jefferson lifted this for the Declaration of Independence
● Of Civil Government (1690)
Mary Wollstonecraft
● Women are people too!!!
● Mother of Mary Shelley who wrote Frankenstein
● A Vindication of the Rights of Women (1792)
Immanuel Kant
● Rationalism is the primary guide for human conduct
● Critique of Practical Reason (1788)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
● People are basically good but corrupted by society
● The Social Contract and Emile (1762)
Adam Smith
● Laissez-Faire economy
● Government play a limited role in protecting consumers
● An inquiry into the Nature and Causes of Wealth of Nations (1776)
Revolutions
● American Revolution
● French Revolution