John Locke

• Prior to Government, Locke imagines a state of nature
• Thus everyone is free and equal
• Everyone is bound by law of nature - Self-preservation and preserving others livevs if it does not conflict with your own

Freedom

• Freedom is not just power
• Don't have liberty to destroy himself or any other creature

Equality

• Not based on our vulnerability or capability to attack
• 'Should also be equal amongst one another without subordination or subjection'.

Theological Foundations

• Like Hobbes, appeals to natural reason
• Adam received earth on behalf of humanity
• God created all people as naturally free and independant
• In a state of nature all are free

Natural Law

• No one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty or possessions
• Ought he as much as he can to preserve the rest of mankind
• Law of Nature 1) Obliges everyone. 2) Declares all to be equal and free 3) Forbidden from harming each other 4) Required to preserve ourselves and others.
• We do all this because we are the workmanship of God

Theoretical Affinity with Individualist Anarchism

• Radical extension of classical liberalism
• State of Nature is full of inconveniences however: Lacks a judge to settle disputes and lacks a mean of enforcing law of nature
• Solution would be to leave the state of nature and enter a civil society but one of…