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This is a 6 page paper on the historical context in the lives of Edmund Burke, John Locke, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, John Stuart Mill, and John Dewey. Edmund Burke, John Locke, John Rawls, Robert Nozick, John Stuart Mill, and John Dewey could all be said to have written highly influential works within their lifetimes but in addition, many of their later works were also reflective of the political, social and educational environments in which they were raised. In an examination of the lives of these men when they were all in their twenties it can be shown that the political climates in which Burke and Locke were raised, the social and political movements which occurred during the lifetimes of Rawls and Nozick and the educational environments of Mill and Dewey were all highly influential on their theories and later reflected in their writings.
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and John Dewey could all be said to have written highly influential works within their lifetimes but in addition, many of their later works were also reflective of the political,
social and educational environments in which they were raised. In an examination of the lives of these men when they were all in their twenties it can be shown that
the political climates in which Burke and Locke were raised, the social and political movements which occurred during the lifetimes of Rawls and Nozick and the educational environments of Mill
and Dewey were all highly influential on their theories and later reflected in their writings. Politician and statesman, Edmund Burke (1729-1797) was born
in Dublin, Ireland. His father was a Protestant solicitor and his mother was a Roman Catholic which would have provided Burke with a great deal of political awareness and conflict
early on in his life (Smeenge). In 1744, he went to University at Trinity College in Dublin and moved to London in 1750 at the age of twenty-one. He began
to publish relatively early in his career as his "A Vindication of Natural Society" (1756) and "A Philosophical Inquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful"
(1757) were published when he was only in his mid to late twenties. In the same time period, he married an Irish Catholic woman named Jane Nugent (Smeenge).
Perhaps because of his Irish background however, Burke was sympathetic toward the American colonies in their early bid for independence and their ideals to control
their own taxation although he was against the slave trade. At the time when he was a young man, Ireland was also being over-taxed by the absentee landlords but was
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