01:510:102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Pierre Bayle, Toleration, House Of Bourbon

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: European History Courses
• Course: 01:510:102
• Professor: Betrand Metton

Document Summary

16th centuries is often considered to have taken place between copernicus" publication of on the revolution of heavenly spheres in 1543 and newton"s. Principia in 1687 which posited laws of motion and universal gravitation. Sovereign: in the two treatises of government (1689), locke argued that men are free and equal, possessing inalienable rights independent of the laws of any government and authority. The main task of the government is to protect these individual rights and especially private property: locke also focused on economic theory and especially concerning laws of supply and demand. !2: his later work was particularly in uential in the foundation of modern economic theory and liberalism as an economic and political doctrine, adam smith later used locke"s observations on supply and demand. !4: it laid the foundation for a secularization of society and the birth of modern social sciences, different conceptions of enlightenment were based on the individual (adam smith) or.