Locke's definition of a state of equality is “...no one having more than another, there being nothing more evident than that creatures of the same species and rank” (4). Nature in its pure, terrestrial form does not allow two things to be perfectly the same. The circle of life ...
Two Treatises of GovernmentFirst TreatiseFilmer cannot be correct because his theory holds that every man is born a slave to the natural born kings. Locke refuses to accept such a theory because of his belief in reason and in the ability of every man to virtuously govern himself according to...
Locke’s definition of political power has an immediate moral dimension. It is a “right” of making laws and enforcing them for “the public good.” Power for Locke never simply means “capacity” but always “morally sanctioned capacity.”Moralitypervades the whole arrangement of society, and...