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| Locke: Background BITCHES |
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| You give up some of the rights you have when you enter into society |
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Laws can make a person good... but government can't.
Social contract takes away some rights but insures protection of others. |
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| Locke: Ruler Ruled Relationship |
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Ruler <--> Ruled
Two-way street |
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| Locke: Why enter society? |
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You are an individual but when you enter society you give up rights in order to protect yourself.
Once consent is given... power shifts to government. |
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| protection of property in social contract in exchange for giving up some of the rights of state of nature |
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Three Deficiencies in State of Nature
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· No established law written down
· There are no indifferent judges in a state of nature
· If someone crosses you… you don’t have the power to punish them
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· Freedom = protection of property
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o a person consents to obey government and considers government to be legit whenever he inherits property.
o if you obey to a law at any point in your life you have signed the consent of society
o also whenever you use a government provided thing
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· Weird but was first thinker to make freedom his central theme
o Freedom is important and precious not because it makes the nation great but for itself. Freedom is freedom and is something that all people in the state of nature have.
o Writes about a state of nature where everyone is free and in peace yall.
o Not democratic
§ Limited monarchy
§ protection of aristocracy
o ideas were dramatic and revolutionary
o building blocks of democracy
§ although used to protect aristocrats
o Next political theorists got to democracy yall.
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