CRM 1301 Lecture 2: Lecture 2 John Locke.doc

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Criminology
• Course: CRM 1301
• Professor: Carolyn Gordon

Document Summary

Internal preservation within society: responsibilities to the people, external preservation don"t want foreign nations invading you, we come together because of internal and external preservation, we do all of this under the banner of what locke calls the public good, were doing for us, making government for us, state of nature vs. state of war. Locke state of war is hostility, destruction, violence: believes that men should be treated as beast of prey, happens when someone tries to take absolute power over someone else (slavery), and you have the absolute right to protect yourself, state of nature is actually a state of peace, goodwill, preservation and it is a state in which reason takes hold, reason is very important for hobbes and locke, state of nature perfect freedom, also a state (like hobbes idea) that we are all essentially equal in that we all have the same capacity to do.