Hint: It isn’t the government.

Freedom is often embodied in objects. For the Founding Fathers, it was the Lockean cottage, earned through labor and governed without interference: a true sanctuary of individual will.  Today, its ...

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 ...

Specifically, within any democratic state or society, every citizen’s fundamental rights, such as the “right to property” or ...

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 ...

Yes, Catholic social thought is built on an organic understanding of society, not a Lockean, contractual one, but when we Catholics talk about the "common good," we know that our concern for "the ...

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.

"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 ...