PSYCH-155 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Patriarcha, Negative Liberty, Louis Hartz
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Dr. danoff"s lecture notes on locke, second treatise of government. When we discussed hobbes, i asserted that while hobbes helped to develop liberal concepts, hobbes is not ultimately a liberal because he rejects the notion of limited government. Hobbes does discuss rights, but the main right he is interested in is the right to self-preservation. Other than protecting that one basic right the right to stay alive -- he does not focus on protecting rights against an oppressive government. Locke, though, is a full-fledged liberal thinker; indeed, he is perhaps the greatest theorist of liberalism. So, if you want to understand liberalism, you must read. Another important reason to read locke is that he was extremely influential on. For example, the opening of the declaration of. Independence is in large part a pithy summary of key ideas from locke"s second. This means that lockean thinking is embedded in what one might call our founding principles as a nation.
