No, he did not say that.
were capable of thinking and so could govern themselves were capable of thinking and so could govern themselves
John Locke believed in natural rights and that people could govern themselves.
"I think; therefore I am" was the end of the search Descartes conducted for a statement that could not be doubted. He found that he could not doubt that he himself existed, as he was the one doing the doubting in the first place. In Latin (the language in which Descartes wrote), the phrase is "Cogito, ergo sum."
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Essentially, Descartes' philosophy was based on the notion of methodical doubt, that is, to doubt absolutely everything that one could not be absolutely certain of. Descartes considered the principal weakness of his predecessor's philosophy to be its subjectivity. He felt that the premises from which previous philosophers deduced truths were not necessarily accurate, and thus did not provide any intellectual certainty. Consequently, Descartes used methodical doubt as the starting point for his philosophy.
Montesquieu did believe people could govern themselves
Montesquieu did believe people could govern themselves
were capable of thinking and so could govern themselves were capable of thinking and so could govern themselves
He wrote Common Sense; which helped people relize they could govern themselves. He also wrote The Crisis.
Such a person could be called a political scientist. Or a Socio-Political Anthropologist or Behaviorist .
Such a person could be called a political scientist. Or a Socio-Political Anthropologist or Behaviorist .
Plato believed that people could not be trusted to govern themselves. Since Aristotle studied under him, he has acquired this belief as well. He believed that democracy is the best system of government.
John Locke believed in natural rights and that people could govern themselves.
No, that would be a direct democracy. Locke believed in represenative democracies in which people elected people to represent them.
Her idela form of government was democracy. She did not like how men had so much control and was an early feminist. She thought that people could govern themselves.
i am i exist
Descartes' theory of knowledge was to doubt all things and accept as knowledge the things that could not be doubted