Locke's The Second Treatise Of Civil Government: The Significance Of Reason
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The significance of reason is discussed both in John Locke's, The Second
Treatise of Civil Government, and in Jean-Jacques Rousseau's, Emile. However,
the definitions that both authors give to the word “reason” vary significantly.
I will now attempt to compare the different meanings that each ....
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rights of others. In this state, there is no need for a central authority
figure to govern the actions of people, for it is the people, themselves, who
impose the “peace and preservation of mankind” (124). One can have perfect
freedom as long as one does not disturb others in their state of nature; in this
“state of perfect equality ... there is no superiority or jurisdiction of one
over another” (124). Men, thereby, have the power to “preserve the innocent and
restrain offe ....
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