Name of the 17th century English philosopher who discussed natural rights in his seminal work ?
John Locke
John Locke (1632-1704), the 17th-century English philosopher, set out the theory of natural rights to life, liberty and property in his Two Treatises of Government (1689).
He argued that government exists by the consent of the governed to protect these rights, an idea that shaped the American Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Paine (Rights of Man, 1791) and John Stuart Mill (On Liberty, 1859) wrote in the 18th and 19th centuries, and Hegel was a German philosopher, so none fits a 17th-century English author.
Hence, the answer is John Locke.
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