GOV 312L Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Absolute Monarchy, Common Good, Public Good
1 Feb 2017
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Locke, the glorious revolution, and the english bill of rights. Empiricist: we can only use things we have evidence for. Some argue that locke wrote his treatise as a justification of bill of rights, not necessarily agreed upon. If people aren"t naturally able to live together, this can be a foundation for government. Locke said we have the right to overcome each other, we have the right to each other"s body: because people have perfect liberty" (we don"t like each other, we don"t have a government) Can kill someone in the state of the nature. If someone does something bad to you, you can kill them. If someone steals from you, then you can kill them. Locke: state of nature is a state of liberty, but not a state of license: we still have to live under the law, you can separate state of nature from state of war.
