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    PHIL H296  J. Peterson  Spring 2015  Locke Short Paper  John Locke in his ​ Second Treatise of Government​  attempts to provide a justification for  private property grounded on natural rights. Locke develops a theory of the “original common  possession of Earth” which justifies the equal ownership of the world by humans. The  theological argument claims that since God gave man dominion over the Earth‚ everyone has a  right to some portion of the Earth. Secondly‚ Locke provides a natural reason argument which 

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    for changes in the way their government was set up. John Locke and Samuel Rutherford were the leaders of this change‚ calling for the removal of an absolute monarch. Their works would be opposed by the ideas of Thomas Hobbes‚ during this eighteen-year civil war in England. The ideas represented in this period would heavily influence the way England’s government would be set up in the eighteenth century. In 1644 Bishop Ross‚ also known as John Maxwell‚ published Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas.The article’s

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    personal opinion I think that human beings are combination of good and bad with many factors in hand. What I may think is bad can be good to others and what I think may be good could be horrible to others. In other cases something may be wrong morally. Something may be wrong because society says so. It’s a matter of opinion. Here are a few examples to justify my argument. A child for instance can be brought up with a family that society sees as near perfect and still turn in the complete opposite

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    Wilfredo Alvarez Piera Separation Between Church and State One of the earliest modern liberals was John Locke‚ who in 1690 published Two Treatises following the conclusion of a major‚ and Locke would think senseless‚ religious sectarian war between Catholics and Protestants. In his manuscript where he introduced the concept of natural law and argues that faith and government have no business mixing‚ Locke contends that government should remain small enough not to trample on people’s liberties while offering

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    Property According to John Locke In chapter V of The Second Treatise of Government by John Locke‚ he begins by explaining that God has given earth to all man in “common”. Meaning everyone equally owns all of the earth and its fruits. How can we humans‚ fairly distribute this land? What gives one man the right to a deer over every other person on earth? Labor‚ Locke states “The labor that was mine removing them out of that common state they were in‚ hath fixed my property in them”(13). This meaning

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    Muslim Intellectuals and those faced by John Locke in his Letter Concerning Toleration is that both eras were marked by intense political turmoil. In Locke’s time‚ the religious wars of the 16th-17th century are comparable to the contemporary Middle East turmoil of religiously motivated protests and failed secularisation efforts‚ with the rise of the Taliban and the growth of other radical Islamic terrorist groups (Samad). Second similar dilemmas faced by both Locke and Muslim liberals are oppositions

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    When Andrew Jackson was denied presidency in 1824 due to “the corrupt bargain” between John Quincy Adams and Henry Clay‚ he was furious at the lack of democracy in the election system. He became determined to institute a new age of genuine democracy in America where the voice of the people wouldim being monarchal‚ Andrew Jackson was a very democratic president evidenced by his drive to give the people more representation and also his attempted transfer of power from the few to the many.

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    John Locke‚ an Influential Enlightenment Thinker People wonder who was the most influential enlightenment thinker. But in my opinion‚ the most influential thinker was John Locke‚ because he was a champion of individual and inalienable human rights‚ he came up with the concepts of natural rights that are very common today‚ and his ideas were accepted as the foundations of both the United States of America and English governments. John Locke’s works lie at the foundations of modern philosophical empiricism

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    ARE HUMAN GOOD OR EVIL Are Human Good or Evil? Are they good or are they evil? All people are born selfish and will only seek their own interest and that this selfishness often leads to violence and war. I thought that one supreme ruler should rule all people in order to prevent ruckus. On the other hand I believe that the natural state of humans was one of peace and harmony. I thought that democracy was a reflection of our basic needs and that it was the only way to have fairness and equality

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    This philosophical study will define the contrasting forms of government that are the result of John Locke’s belief in the innate good of humankind in contrast to the innate evil of Thomas Hobbes’ authoritarian governance. Locke and Hobbes initially agree on a pre-history of human life in the “state of nature” by acknowledging the less organized rules and laws of human civilization under God. In agreement‚ these philosophers understand the “invention” of governments by human beings through the authority

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