John Locke: Life, Liberty, & Property
An Examination of Locke’s Key Argument
Locke was an important British philosopher of the 17th century. He contributed to
- our understanding of human nature (tabula rasa or “blank slate”),
- the study of knowledge (empirical method), and
- politics (large influence on the American Declaration of independence, its French counterpart Declaration of Rights of Man, and classical liberalism).
His influence is hard to underplay. In this blog post I will cover one of his key arguments for Life, Liberty, and Property.
Brief Housekeeping
Before I get into that … I will quickly do some housekeeping. I wanted to start a brief series about political philosophy covering key arguments of thinkers from John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and many more.
I realize that a lot of work has already been done on these thinkers but I thought that Medium might need a little bit of a boost of political philosophy, so why not?
This series will be very short, however, and will seek to cover each thinker within 500 words. Let me know in the comments whether you find these beneficial!
