Compare and contrast these two thinkers and their reflections on change. More specifically, how does John Locke’s vision of individual rights, rights of rebellion, and the right to appropriate nature with our labor square with Edmund Burke’s reaction to the
revolutionary upheavals in 18th century France, his opinions on the American Revolution, his attitude towards tradition, common sense, and his wariness of philosophical systems?
Show an understanding of John Locke’s liberalism and Edmund
Burke’s conservatism. Distinguish their brand of liberalism and conservatism not only from each other but also from contemporary iterations of these paradigmatic political outlooks.
