THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THOMAS PAINES COMMON SENSE
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Question
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John Locke saw human beings as ____
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Kind and Selfless
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Selfish and Aggressive
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Self-interested, but not always violent
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Shaped by our experiences in life
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -John Locke For him, human nature is guided by tolerance and reason. The State of Nature is pre-political, but it is not pre-moral. Persons are assumed to be equal to one another in such a state, and therefore equally capable of discovering and being bound by the Law of Nature.
Detailed explanation-2: -In An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1690), Locke argued that ideas come from two “fountains” of experience: sensation, through which the senses convey perceptions into the mind, and reflection, whereby the mind works with the perceptions, forming ideas.
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