PAPM 1000 Final: Question 1

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Public Affairs and Policy Management
• Course: PAPM 1000
• Professor: Marc Andre Gagnon

Document Summary

In the book, second treatise of government, john locke explains the state of nature as a state of equality in which no one has power over another, and all men are free to do as they please. He notes, however, that this liberty does not equal license to abuse others, and that natural laws exist even in the state of nature. I will argue that, the philosophy put forward by. Locke is a reflection of the state of nature as envisioned by him. This impacts the way locke sees how the state of nature influences freedom, ultimately concluding that it is a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of license. Locke claims that, naturally all men are in the state of nature which; is a state of perfect freedom. In this state, men order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit.