PHIL 4230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: A Letter Concerning Toleration, Civil Society, Absolute Monarchy
9 Mar 2016
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Week 4: john locke (chp 5 pg 88-125) Locke is regarded as the most important thinker of early modern liberalism. Grew up during the ime of the english civil war, a conlict between the parliament and. Locke"s version of social contract theory is where a pre-poliical society is a state of men living together relaively peacefully without a common civil authority. Reason teaches us that we are all free, equal and independent. Argues that the power of government does not include establishing an oicial faith. Born equal state of equality where all the power/jurisdicion is reciprocal. Equality of men by nature makes it the foundaion of the obligaion to mutual love: where locke derives jusice and charity. Being all equal and independent, no one should not harm another, their health, liberty or possessions. Everyone has a right to punish the transgressors of that law.
