SCS 1160 Lecture : Class 7. Locke.docx
16 Mar 2012
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Locke believes in the state of nature there is a natural right to property. You require ownership by mixing your labour with the state of nature. The mixing model: find an apple, peel it, it is yours because you have modified it and it is now your property. Restrictions: must leave enough for the next person who comes along, you cannot accumulate so much so you are the ne who decides who lives and dies, spoilage restriction i can accumulate only enough advantageously. These restrictions are part of what locke vies as the natural law of property. Then we have people who accumulate money, which does not prevent others from gathering their own money, and it does not spoil. You can only have what you can use yourself and not take what others can use, then he states you can accumulate some things, like money. Once we create a society we all agree to put value into money.
