[PHIL 1010] - Final Exam Guide - Ultimate 65 pages long Study Guide!
30 Mar 2017
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Locke was also an important defender of the right of revolution: he defended the principle of majority rule and the separation of legislative and executive powers. Governments exist by the consent of the people in order to protect the rights of people and promote the public good: governments that fail to do so can be resisted and replaced with new governments. Locke importantly argued that people have rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property: these rights have a foundation that is independent of the laws of any particular society. Natural law is also distinct from divine law revealed through the prophets be binding on all people. Locke did think that god could play a role in the argument for natural law so alone coextensive. In the century before locke, the language of natural rights gained prominence through grotius, hobbes, and puffendorf: natural law emphasizes duties, natural rights emphasized privileges or claims to which a person was entitled.
