The Hobbes-Locke debate between security and autonomy – in a sense, a contest between Hobbesian nightmares and Lockean dreams — is always in play when it comes to the theory and practice of ...

Additionally, Powell discussed the Lockean view that the purpose of language is to communicate what is hidden in one’s mind for the advancement of knowledge. Therefore, words serve as indicators ...

Lockean Property Rights: A Framework for Ownership Locke argued that property ownership originates through labor. He famously stated, “Whatsoever [a man] removes out of the state that Nature hath ...

Jeremy Waldron, a distinguished legal philosopher, disagrees with this line of thought; and in The Rule of Law and the Measure of Property (Cambridge University Press 2012), he deploys many arguments ...

Unlike the Lockean-Madisonian approach of making religious practice a private affair, where each community maintains its own place of worship, thick sites become a focal point for intense ...

This paper derives the essence of a substance (i.e., the nominal essence) and its content by respectively discussing substance and real essence, substance and nominal essence, providing an answer to ...

In Lockean theory, the essence of a substance refers to precisely the nominal essence of the substance (a point that will be discussed in detail in section III), which gives meaning, boundaries of use ...

Instead, there was a sharp ideological turn during the early 20th century, when German-educated “progressives” self-consciously sought to displace Lockean liberalism with Hegelian bureaucracy.

"Most readers of the Second Treatise do not meditate enough on the astonishing list of features of human life rendered unnatural simply by not appearing in the Lockean state of nature," Blakely notes.

"Not only does Hunt himself feel prouder to be British on account of the NHS than because of the founding of Parliament, Newton’s science, Lockean liberty, abolishing slavery and defeating ...

The term ‘contract’ did surface in political usage, but not in the Lockean sense; it was more often used in connection with the king’s coronation oath. Contrary to later mythology, far from defining ...