John Locke - Second Treatise | Political Philosophy 

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I feel the states of nature between hobbes and locke differ in their confidence in others... While hobbes says a person will attack the others before they could in anticipation of threat and possible self destruction, Locke holds that people won't probably attack each other in such anticipation or paranoia, and will only harm to punish some antisocial element once a harm has been done

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What I like about Locke, is he doesn’t disregard Hobbes completely, he just re-construes the social contract to not be so one-sided to the commonwealth sovereign having so much control

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I'm not sure I understand how natural law leads to rights existing. Could you try explaining how medieval natural law theory fascilitated Locke's liberalism?

This along with negative vs positive rights does answer the question of is clean water a natural right.

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I love John Locke.

Locke posited a natural right to life and thus a natural right to labor to create the necessities of life and a concomitant right to property in the product of his labor. This provides the moral foundation of Karl Marx and socialism and is the moral indictment of capitalism and feudalism.

My understanding is that Locke was paid by the King in Royal African Corporation stock which he had no control over. He also fled the King.

Can anyone say anything regarding balance here?

John still needed more growth, but he set up ground for constitution and amendments!

It's the same as Jefferson or Madison they all wanted slavery gone but they knew it wasn't possible at that time now the fact that they exploited slavery just make some businessman

You don't mention, and neither does Locke acknowledge, that Filmer is attacking Cardinal Bellarmine 's Catholic ideas.

I tend to agree with Hobbes more when it comes to the nature of man, I also think Hobbes was less of a hypocrite. With that said, I don't agree with Hobbes theory of government. Locke was a liberal, capitalist, hypocrite.

Why did you dress, at 9:15, as Whistler's mother?

On some things he wrote I agree. And some I do not. I agree that the government should not tolerate Catholic Papist, but disagree that it should not tolerate Atheists. I am a very lapsed Catholic and an Atheist. 🤔😇😎

6:02 LMAO

slow down....

So any philosopher who participates in behavior opposite of what they preach can be disregarded? Wonderful! Then we can ignore nearly all of them. Especially Marx, Engels, and Hegel!

Lockes theory is great but your critiques are terrible...

17:05 No, because billionaires are not holding idle wealth. They are billionaires because the net worth of their capital stock, which is clearly not idle, amounts to billions. You really should know this as a PhD and lecturer on political philosophy.

There is a sort of love that exists when a women submits to a man and their ability to acquire resources for her. Subservience is often a form of love and trust. Some view this oppression, but it can also be attributed to love in the correct circumstances.

It’s funny and disingenuous to assume that people’s past would have our morality. Those that favor the disenfranchisement of Locke’s ideas on the basis of his involvement of the business of the day are missing the point. Let us carry on Locke’s tradition in a better way, hence modern day U.S.

Good in generally, a little bit too woke.

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