Ancient Jewish concepts that influenced Western society are:
A weekly day of rest.
Individual rights.
Worker rights.
Humane treatment of animals.
Free public education.
The necessity of just laws and courts.
Sexual morality.
Differentiation between murder and killing.
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Monotheism, the Ten Commandments, the Torah and the Prophets.
Judaism values all individuals; men, women, and children. The wealthy have no privileges; and the poor are valued, supported and their opinions listened to. (Compare this to those societies in which only mature, land-owning males had any legal status.)
Judaism applied laws, and rules of moral behavior, to all its members equally. The laws of Moses form much of Western legal background.
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"I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation ... fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations" (John Adams, 2nd President of the United States).
"Certainly, the world without the Jews would have been a radically different place. Humanity might have eventually stumbled upon all the Jewish insights, but we cannot be sure. All the great conceptual discoveries of the human intellect seem obvious and inescapable once they had been revealed, but it requires a special genius to formulate them for the first time. The Jews had this gift. To them we owe the idea of equality before the law, both Divine and human; of the sanctity of life and the dignity of the human person; of the individual conscience and of the collective conscience and social responsibility" (Paul Johnson, Christian historian, author of A History of the Jews and A History of Christianity).
The long, rich history of Judaism gives the Western world much of its shape today. Many of the laws, traditions, culture and values are directly attributable to Judaism.Link: History of Judaism
It is important to note that all of the above were instituted among the Hebrews (a.k.a. the Israelites) thousands of years earlier than in other nations. Here's one example: Infanticide was practiced among classical European nations until it was stopped by the influence of Judaism and its daughter-religions. Professor and former President of the American Historical Association, William L. Langer (in The History of Childhood): "Children, being physically unable to resist aggression, were the victims of forces over which they had no control, and they were abused in almost unimaginable ways."
Link: Infanticide was practiced
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the magna carta, three fifths compromise, and enlightenment were the ideas
John Locke's contributions to Enlightenment thought were significant. He emphasized the importance of reason, individual rights, and the social contract theory. His ideas influenced later Enlightenment thinkers and helped shape democratic principles found in modern political systems.
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John Locke
Ordered, limited, and representative government
Some of the philosophers who have influenced him include Friedrich Nietzsche, Martin Heidegger, and Michel Foucault. These thinkers have helped shape his ideas on subjects such as power, truth, and ethics.