All Posts Tagged With: "John Locke"
The Long Affair: Thomas Jefferson and the French Revolution, 1785-1800 by Conor Cruise O’Brien
University of Chicago Press • 1996 • 385 pages • $29.95 Dr. Skoble is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Southeast Missouri State University. Although Thomas Jefferson is popularly known as a great statesman, historians have long been aware that he, like everyone else, was not as purely good as his popular image would suggest. [...]
1Jul1997 | Aeon J. Skoble | 1 comment | ContinuedWhy Not Slavery?
Bertel M. Sparks (1918-1994) was a professor of law at New York University and later at Duke University, and a trustee of the Foundation for Economic Education. This previously unpublished article was originally prepared as a speech for a FEE summer seminar. Upon first impression, it might appear a bit ridiculous even to ask the [...]
1Nov1996 | Bertel M. Sparks | 2 comments | ContinuedJohn Locke: Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property
A number of times throughout history, tyranny has stimulated breakthrough thinking about liberty. This was certainly the case in England with the mid-seventeenth-century era of repression, rebellion, and civil war. There was a tremendous outpouring of political pamphlets and tracts. By far the most influential writings emerged from the pen of scholar John Locke.
1Aug1996 | Jim Powell | 197 comments | ContinuedThe Theme Is Freedom: Religion, Politics, and the American Tradition
The sources of the freedoms and form of government that Americans once enjoyed are often a subject of dispute. One side claims that the American republic was the product of the Enlightenment and the spirit of the times. The other holds that the break from Britain was essentially a conservative affair provoked by usurpations of [...]
1Aug1995 | Gregory P. Pavlik | 0 comments | ContinuedTacit Consent: A Quiet Tyranny
Mr. Greenwood is a journalist in Billings, Montana. To the student of liberty, John Locke has always been an important philosopher. His doctrine of rights, especially property rights, has always struck the imagination. On the other hand, John Rawls is thought of by many who value freedom as a dangerous philosopher. His concern with fairness [...]
1Jan1995 | Bowen H. Greenwood | 2 comments | Continued-
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