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    extrapolated from are a common property of mankind‚ how does one obtain private property? This is a question that John Locke‚ a highly influential philosopher theorized about. Locke’s stance on property seems relatively simple‚ every man has the right to their own labor. The labor put into a commodity or enclosure that originally resides on common ground makes it their own. According to Locke‚ nature should be used productively because God wanted men to use the gifts given to them and be fruitful and multiply

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    1. a. Locke denies innate principles‚ as there are no principles to which all mankind give a universal assent. He begins his denial of innate principles by stating that “Universal consent proves nothing innate” (pg. 319‚ 3.). With this statement he claims that even if there were universal principles that all mankind agreed with‚ this would still not prove these principles innate if there could be any way to show how those in agreement came to consent to these ideas. But‚ for Locke‚ there are no universal

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    Hobbes vs. Locke vs. Rousseau/ State of Nature/ Allam/ 2013 “I am at the point of believing‚ that my labor will be as useless as the commonwealth of Plato. For Plato‚ also is of the opinion that it is impossible for the disorders of the state ever to be taken away until sovereigns be philosophers . . . I recover some hope that one time or other this writing of mine may fall into the hands of a sovereign who will consider it for himself‚ for it is short‚ and I think clear.” -The Monster of

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    The state of nature according to Locke is “a state of perfect freedom to order their actions and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit... without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.” For Locke‚ the state of nature is where humans exist without an established government or social contract. In a since the state of nature is a state of anarchy‚ of no order. What John Locke believed about the state of nature was that if men could act in a positive way‚ they

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    In his Second Treatise on Law and Government‚ John Locke outlines clear and coherent standards for what constitutes a legitimate government and what persons one such government would have authority over. Both are determined by citizens’ acts of consenting to relinquish to the government part of their natural authority over their own conduct. Unfortunately‚ the situation becomes much less clear once we consider how his standards would apply to the political situation existing in the real world today

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    Street‚ London W1T 3JH‚ UK Australian Geographer Publication details‚ including instructions for authors and subscription information: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/cage20 Environmental and Cultural Implications of Visitor Access in the Kimberley Region‚ Australia Pascal Scherrer a ‚ Amanda J. Smith b ‚ Martin Randall b & Ross Dowling c a Centre for Tourism‚ Leisure and Work‚ School of Tourism and Hospitality Management‚ Southern Cross University‚ Lismore‚ Australia and Centre for Ecosystem

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    John Locke should be one of the one’s that have the most impact on the Enlightenment because he proclaimed that men are free by nature and should not be subject to a monarchy. In Locke’s “Two Treatises of Government‚” he strongly defends that men are free and equal and that they have rights such rights like life‚ liberty‚ and property that are independent of any particular laws of the society and that no one can take these rights away from you. Locke thought that all people were reasonable and

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    Locke begins chapter six by saying that men suggest that all of the parental power is established in the fathers‚ but that the mothers have equal say in matters. He gives proof of this by quoting one of the commandments‚ Honor thy father and thy mother. Because of this‚ Locke says that a monarchy should rule the same as parents‚ together and with equal authority. One man should not have all the power. He does recognize that while he says all men are equal‚ that men who are older and more experienced

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    Since there were more discoveries in science‚ European thinkers such as Hobbes‚ Locke‚ and Wollstonecraft had huge impacts on the government and human life. They each had their separate ways of thinking and perusing things. Human life was obviously the problem and each of them had different perspectives on dealing with the issue. Thomas Hobbes was a political philosopher and believed that people were self-centered. He believed that everyone should be treated equal and that no one man is better

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    John Locke’s theory of property is tailored to the natural law of obligation. Locke‚ in The Second Treatise‚ develops his argument by discussing how God created humans within the state of nature and gave them a right to self-preservation‚ including a right to property. It is stated that Locke gave mankind the ability to use nature’s products. This introduced the right of labor. The value of individual labor is conditional within the terms of appropriation. In order for society to override particular

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