### 01. Western Man idealized model short history: John Locke: was the first to articulate in his Two Treatises of Government (1689) that all people possess natural rights to life, liberty, and property—a foundation for Enlightenment notions of self-determination and moral agency. Immanuel Kant: After Locke, Kant systematized this ideal of self-determination and moral agency and in his moral philosophy, Kant defined autonomy as the capacity of rational agents to legislate universal moral laws for themselves, thereby cementing the image of Western man as a self-governing, rights-endowed individual guided by reason. --- Related Links: [[anti-humanism]] [[Posthuman]] [[Art]]