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Locke's The Second Treatise Of Civil Government: The Significance Of Reason
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....ent, 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 man considered to
be the accurate definition of reason.
John Locke believed that the state “all men are naturally in.... Part 2 of Paper
....n 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 offenders” (124) and punish those who transgress against them and
disturb their “state of nature.” Thus, all men are their own “executioner[s] in
the law of nature,” or the Law of Reason.
While all men are in charge of their own will according to the Law of
Reason in which they are born, some men do, in fa.... |
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