John Locke (2)
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- John Locke (2)
- Consent and Democracy
- State legitimacy relies on consent which can be tacit
- Legitimate political authority as democratic and open
- Conveniences of SoN is that it can act as interpreter and defender of law of nature regarding private property rights
- Most people do not have property so not good idea to give vote to public
- What if they vote to take property away from its legitimate owners?
- Property
- How can we come to own anything if its given by God?
- Fundamental law of nature
- Humanity needs to be preserved as much as possible so we must take what we need
- Survival is a duty because God put us on earth but there are conditions
- Person must not take so much that it will be wasted
- People must leave 'as good and enough as' for other people
- But how does this account for land ownership?
- Mixing Labour
- If by mixing labour with an object does it become yours?
- Is this sufficient enough to make it your property?
- Soup and ocean example
- Must not make other people worse off
- Money. Money creates more wealth than an economy based on barter
- Natural Rights and Human Rights
- For Locke, liberty and equality are natural rights
- These rights are 'unalienable' and cannot be given away
- You cannot commit suicide or sell yourself into slavery
- Consent and Democracy
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