John Locke, Demosthenes, Orson Scott Card, Warsaw Pact
John Locke, an English philosopher, is one of the most recognized philosophers of all time. Born in Somerset County, he went to school at Oxford University where he got to be good friends with a man named Anthony Ashley Cooper. After rumors flew of Locke helping Cooper with plots against the king, he fled England to the Netherlands. In the Netherlands, he met Prince William and Princess Mary Queen Of Orange. Six years later, in 1689, William and Mary were crowned King and Queen of England and Locke returned. Throughout his life, John Locke wrote many famous pieces of writing including An Essay Concerning Human Understanding. In this essay, "Locke argued against the doctrine of innate ideas, which stated that ideas were part of the mind at birth and not learned or acquired later from outside sources. Locke claimed that all ideas were placed in the mind by experience." (Douglas M. Jesseph, "Locke, John," World Book Online Americas Edition, http://aolsvc.worldbook.aol.com/arr/o/ar3280.htm, September 6, 2002.) Locke also stated ideas are gained by occurrence and experience, both inner and outer. "Outer experience" consisted of ideas in the mind, that were gained through the senses; while "inner experience" was more abou
t refining the information obtained through the outer experience and clarifying it mentally. Locke also believed that every person had inalienable rights, such as the rights of life, liberty and the ownership of property (sound familiar? Locke helped shape the constitution). Locke stated that it was the King's duty to preserve these rights, and he declared that if the ruler couldn't defend the rights of his people, then the people had the right to find a new ruler. The Warsaw pact, designed to keep various eastern European countries under close watch and control by the Soviet, was signed in 1955. Countries East Germany, Hungary, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Albania, and Poland claimed they all signed for the same reason, in result to the US creating the organization NATO (North Atlantic Treaty Organization), an alliance formed with the U.S. and its allies. Just over thirty years later, and because the Communists in Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Poland and Hungary were being cleaned of their authority, the Soviet power over its allies in the contract decreased extensively and countries started backing out on the contract. The first country to part was Hungary in early 1990, and then Poland, East Germany and Czechoslovakia were out by the end of the year. By 1991,
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