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This 7 page paper argues that philosophers not only interpret the world, they change it. Philosophies of Descartes, Locke and Bacon are each discussed in depth. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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the world, but that the point is to change it. However, in delving back into the past, one can clearly see that many great philosophers have in fact changed it.
They laid the foundation for the world in which people live today and have added knowledge to the worlds of science, politics and economics. Through this knowledge, and a carefully
crafted worldview, things have changed. In addition, there are present day philosophers expounding on some old ideas, and change continues to take place. Social and political change occurs today as
it did over the centuries. During the nineteenth century, Karl Marx and Georg Hegel spun the world on its head. In the twentieth
century, people like Billy Graham and Martin Luther King had made a difference in the way in which the world works and how people live. However, in looking through time,
certain philosophers stand out in how much they have contributed to the world and effected change. Three of these important men were John Locke, Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes.
John Locke was born in the seventeenth century and it was during this time that much was changing in terms of philosophy. John Lockes
The Second Treatise of Civil Government is rather compelling and in fact, free choice and libertarianism seem to be a theme in this work. Locke wrote:" To understand political power
right, and derive it from its original, we must consider, what state all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and
dispose of their possessions and persons, as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of nature, without asking leave, or depending upon the will of any other man"(Locke
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