Liberalism vs Conservatism
Often people identify themselves with liberalism or conservatism. Many philosophers have wrote text to help us understand this terms well and find what we really are. It is important and crucial to know what someone is identifying them self’s with.
Locke tries to express his thoughts in his essay, “The Second Treaties of Government” and attempts to defend the rulers of the divine right of the kings; he also speaks against Sr. Roberts Filmers. Through the essay Locke explains the state of nature. He says everyone is considered equal and that no one has power over another. Therefore they have the right to do as they please because they are free. Locke says, “To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.” (Locke, p.1) However Locke adds that there are limits to freedom in the state of nature, he asserts that in society there are natural laws that prevent anyone from taking abuse of the natural law. Locke provides, “And that all men may be restrained from invading others’ rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of Nature be observed, which wills that the peace and preservation of all mankind, the execution of the law of Nature is in that state put into every man’s hands, whereby every one has a right to punish the transgressors of that law to such a degree as may hinder its violation.”(Locke, p. 2)
Locke then proceeds in his essay, by giving examples of commonwealth it clearly links to law of nature which society has made to keep restrictions in society. In chapter 10 of the essay, “The Second Treaties of Government” Locke features the different forms of common wealth he endorse it is not a specific form of government it is a preferable
Locke tries to express his thoughts in his essay, “The Second Treaties of Government” and attempts to defend the rulers of the divine right of the kings; he also speaks against Sr. Roberts Filmers. Through the essay Locke explains the state of nature. He says everyone is considered equal and that no one has power over another. Therefore they have the right to do as they please because they are free. Locke says, “To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom to order their actions, and dispose of their possessions and persons as they think fit, within the bounds of the law of Nature, without asking leave or depending upon the will of any other man.” (Locke, p.1) However Locke adds that there are limits to freedom in the state of nature, he asserts that in society there are natural laws that prevent anyone from taking abuse of the natural law. Locke provides, “And that all men may be restrained from invading others’ rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of Nature be observed, which wills that the peace and preservation of all mankind, the execution of the law of Nature is in that state put into every man’s hands, whereby every one has a right to punish the transgressors of that law to such a degree as may hinder its violation.”(Locke, p. 2)
Locke then proceeds in his essay, by giving examples of commonwealth it clearly links to law of nature which society has made to keep restrictions in society. In chapter 10 of the essay, “The Second Treaties of Government” Locke features the different forms of common wealth he endorse it is not a specific form of government it is a preferable