Here I think the lack of necessity would point to an absence of a Lockean natural right of self-defense and a duty to preserve life, not take it. So I don’t think that this strand of stand ...

America’s experiment in human liberty and equality is profoundly Lockean. It is also, in some important respects, deeply Christian. Locke believed that the gospel message of divine mercy ...

Hint: It isn’t the government.

The ‘at least’ clause has become known as the ‘Lockean proviso’. It is usually understood as specifying a limit to labor-based acquisition of private property. Since libertarians care a ...

Details about the tools and tactics used by a ransomware affiliate group, now tracked as Lockean, have emerged today in a report from France’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT).

Today, “politics in a Lockean spirit takes on such a moralistic, abstract, and impractical character” that it must be considered “theology and not politics at all.” The problem Locke faced ...

What would 17th-century English philosopher John Locke think of the U.S. Commercial Space Launch Competitiveness Act? Locke's life overlapped with Galileo's, so the father of classical liberalism ...

But the conservative theory of rights does not do justice to the pragmatism and flexibility of the Lockean natural rights theory held by America’s Founders. According to that theory, natural ...

The Lockean vision of liberal society was one based on consent. Free individuals would accept a social contract in order to protect their natural rights to life, liberty and property. After ...

Bovens, L. 2010. A Lockean defence of grandfathering emission rights (forthcoming). The Ethics of Global Climate Change [Denis Arnold (ed.)]. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

But power to protect their liberty against the predations of others. From the Lockean perspective in the modern era, getting high by ingesting weed isn’t predatory behavior against anyone else.

In the summer of 1704, English philosopher John Locke began writing a response to a critic of his controversial treatise on religious freedom, A Letter Concerning Toleration (1689). It was, in ...