POLS 2900 Lecture Notes - Body Politic
4 Mar 2013
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The state of nature: the way hobbes talks about the state of nature changes from chapter ii to chapter ix, locke refutes the absence of private property. He refutes that there is no private property and that the king owns it. Locke argues that god gave property to everyone. He argues that we do have a right as all others to enjoy nature"s abundance. But each person has their own right to enjoy the fruits of their own labour. E. g. anyone can pick an apple from an apple tree. But only the person who did the picking is entitled to the apple that he has picked. It is the labour that distinguishes the common from private. It is my apple because i picked it from the tree: one can only take what one can make use of. It does not make sense to take more than you can use.
