What does John Locke mean by self-ownership? According to Wikipedia “John Locke was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the ‘father of liberalism’.” According to Cambridge University Press and Assessment, “For Locke, initial full self-ownership thus expresses absolute original independence from human authority as well as rights of civil and political self-determination. It is not expressive of unlimited rights in our life or body—the ultimate owner of which is God.“

How does the Age of Discovery provide an opportunity for Spanish thinkers to reflect on the idea of rights? Rights are the ability to do something without anyone stopping you. Each human has three basic rights. Life, liberty, and property. The right of life gives you freedom to live your life the way you want to. The right of liberty gives you the freedom to be free or have the religion of you choice. The right of property means whatever you own, no one can take it from you, even the government. A lot of people get needs mixed up with rights. A need is just something that you need to survive like food, water, and shelter. A lot of people also get wants mixed up with needs and rights. Wants are just something that you want. The age of discovery is when Europeans came to America to explore and discover. When they were there they found natives, which they killed, burned their property, and enslaved them. They were taking away their rights to life, liberty, and property. How does the Age of Discovery provide an opportunity for Spanish thinkers to reflect on the idea of rights? This caused people to realize that it doesn’t matter which religion or people group that your from everyone has rights.