POL200Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 22: Absolute Monarchy, Tyrant, Body Politic
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Such abilities entailed are implied to be simplicity and adaptability. Locke wants to create distinct public and private spheres (political and family life, respectively) The private sphere, through parental interaction, raises the children to develop their ability to reason. The public sphere is an eternal testing ground for these children. Locke"s philosophy is reasonable because it can make one feel content with the compromises between the public and private spheres he proposes. These compromises are not necessarily so, but rather freedom"s logical necessities. Children act as living antitheses to liberal governments. To locke, family life was not a natural occurrence but a convention of consent. He reorganized the family to invalidate the analogy of a master-slave relationship; father holds power and authority above the others. Locke realizes that this matter is a question of equality. Therefore, to attack political inequalities, the family has to be reorganized so that children are empowered.
