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 ...

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 ...

They are primarily people who are political theorists who are saying the American Revolution adopts this kind of Lockean social compact where we have citizenship by consent, and this is the ...

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.