PHIL 2280 Lecture 6: John Locke’s Second Treatise of Government
2 Oct 2017
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Wrote in a time of unrest like hobbes before him. He modeled his theory and morality around the natural sciences. With the hope of getting the same results of truthful and certain that science provided. He starts by treating the state of nature as hobbes did but describes it differently. It is relatively a state of equality: one where a person is free to make their own choices without the permission of someone else. If i produce it or work it then is now my property: make it legal or legitimized. Even in the state of nature humans know the moral law, which is reason. It teaches us that we are all free and independent and that no one should violate another in his life, health, liberty or possessions. The condition of men living together according to reason, without a common superior on earth is the state of nature. The natural law implies natural rights with corresponding duties.
