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There were many philosophers throughout the Enlightenment period. Some of these great thinkers shared similar views on related ideas, others differed completely. I personally agreed most with John Locke’s philosophies. Locke was born in 1632 and died in 1704. His works concerned human nature, how the structure of a society should be set up, and other issues to that effect. Locke’s philosophies and books are all applicable to our society today and some of our …

…formed for three significant reasons; an established law was needed, authority to judge right from wrong according to the established law, and a power to “back and support the sentence when right and give it due execution” (Why Form a Civil Society). I find these three reasons to be substantive in our society today and without those factors our society would be in a disordered situation where nothing functions correctly and all people are corrupt.