In this series of online lectures, we explore and deconstruct the philosophy of John Locke including all the lies you’ve been told about him; namely, that he was a small-government libertarian and his state of nature was different from Thomas Hobbes. On the contrary, a careful, actual, reading of Locke reveals his political theory necessitates an all-encompassing state and legislature, and that his state of nature isn’t really different from Hobbes since it must devolve into “the state of war” which leads humanity out of the state of nature. We also explore the law of self-preservation and how this leads to the law of property in his philosophy and how the law of self-preservation as the law of property becomes the basis for Lockean political philosophy.
LECTURE ONE: THE LIES YOU WERE TOLD ABOUT JOHN LOCKE
LECTURE TWO: THE LAW OF NATURE IN JOHN LOCKE
LECTURE THREE: PROPERTY AND POLITICS IN JOHN LOCKE
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Hesiod, Paul Krause in real life, is the editor-in-chief of VoegelinView. He is writer, classicist, and historian. He has written on the arts, culture, classics, literature, philosophy, religion, and history for numerous journals, magazines, and newspapers. He is the author of Finding Arcadia, The Odyssey of Love and the Politics of Plato, and a contributor to the College Lecture Today and Making Sense of Diseases and Disasters. He holds master’s degrees in philosophy and religious studies (biblical studies & theology) from the University of Buckingham and Yale, and a bachelor’s degree in economics, history, and philosophy from Baldwin Wallace University.
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