„MEN being, as has been said, by nature, all free, equal, and independent, no one can be put out of this estate, and subjected to the political power of another, without his own consent.“ (Sect. 95) #Locke #PoliticalPower
Schlagwort-Archive: Locke
Locke: L’État
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„L’ETAT, selon mes idées, est une Société d’Hommes établie dans la seule vue de se procurer les uns aux autres la conservation & de l’avancement de leurs INTERETS CIVILS.“ (p. 14) #Locke #état #IntéretsCivils
Locke: Absolute Monarchy
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„Hence it is evident, that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil-government at all: for the end of civil society, being to avoid, and remedy those inconveniencies of the state of nature, which necessarily follow from every man’s being judge in his own case, by setting up a known authority, to which every one of that society may appeal upon any injury received, or controversy that may arise, and which every one of the society ought to obey; where-ever any persons are, who have not such an authority to appeal to, for the decision of any difference between them, there those persons are still in the state of nature; and so is every absolute prince, in respect of those who are under his dominion.“ (Sect. 90) #Locke #AbsoluteMonarchy
Locke: Tyranny
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„AS usurpation is the exercise of power, which another hath a right to; so tyranny is the exercise of power beyond right, which no body can have a right to. And this is making use of the power any one has in his hands, not for the good of those who are under it, but for his own private separate advantage.“ (Sect. 199) #Locke #tyranny
Locke: Property
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„The great and chief end, therefore, of men’s uniting into commonwealths, and putting themselves under government, is the preservation of their property.“ (Sect. 124) #Locke #property