INAG 110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, William Lloyd Garrison
6 Aug 2017
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Inag 110 lecture 2: history of public speaking part 2. Two of the most prominent of the enlightenment thinkers were john locke (1632 1704) and fran ois-marie arouet (1694 1778), who wrote under the pen name voltaire. Locke"s second treatise on government (1690) argued that because all men were born with natural rights, the only just form of government was one formed with the consent and participation of the people. The frenchman fran ois-marie arouet was one of the most prominent defenders of freedom of speech during the enlightenment era. Both the american and french revolutions were products of the enlightenment"s new emphasis on the natural rights of the individual and the need to restrain the power of government in order to preserve and protect those rights. Neither of these revolutions would have been possible without decisive and influential use of public speech by their leaders.
