Recent Posts Tagged With 'john locke'

• Is Independence Day Worthy of Celebration?

  Posted on Sunday July 5th, 2009 at 13:13 in Culture, thomas jefferson, john locke, declaration of independence, 4th of july, fourth of july, independence day, events (politics), second treatise

  Introduction [ Intro | Declaration | Conclusion ] Given the fireworks I heard going off outside my apartment last night, it would seem to have been the 4th of July. And, it would seem, the 4th was something worth celebrating (by exploding ...

• What Is Modernism?: Examples

  Posted on Monday May 18th, 2009 at 15:34 in religion, politics, Culture, life, christianity, Church, philosophy, history, constitution, empire, locke, constantine

  [ What Is Modernism? | Examples ] ____ Friedrich Nietzsche The modernist “wheel” in Untimely Meditations — On the Use and Abuse of History for Life: (1) Order of Priority: Temporal and Moral (2) Current Oppressive Authority (or...

• What Does “Natural” Mean?

  Posted on Friday February 27th, 2009 at 15:47 in Culture, environment, Natural, john locke, theory (politics), ethics (philosophy)

  For part of today’s lecture I gave my spiel on what “natural” means (since it was the final lecture on Locke).  (I’ve tackled the topic before here, here, here, here, and here.) Locke’s politics is based on the idea of ...

• One of the Best Things Ever Written

  Posted on Thursday February 26th, 2009 at 07:42 in pacifism, john locke, ethics (philosophy)

  Okay, maybe not.  But after ripping Locke in the last post, I have to congratulate him for this: Sec. 16. . . . [F]or, by the fundamental law of nature, man being to be preserved as much as possible, when all cannot be preserved, the safety of the...

• One of the Worst Things Ever Written

  Posted on Wednesday February 25th, 2009 at 16:57 in john locke, majority rule, body politic, second treatise of civil government, theory (politics), ethics (philosophy)

  My class and I had to deal with this section — by my favorite political theorist, John Locke — on Monday: Sec. 96. For when any number of men have, by the consent of every individual, made a community, they have thereby made that communit...

• Three Theories of Punishment. Pick Two.

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 18:47 in Culture, punishment, criminal justice, john locke, theory (politics), ethics (philosophy)

  I’m teaching my students John Locke’s Second Treatise of Civil Government. In it, Locke asserts (see sections 7 and 8) that there are two reasons for (or justifications for?) punishing outlaws (in the State of Nature, anyway): To make re...