John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government" (Part 2/2)

In this episode, I cover the second half of John Locke's "Second Treatise of Government."
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Your show is great and has been crucial to expanding my own ideas of theory. I can't believe I'm now in a place to disagree with something. Who am I? That said, I disagree with the characterization of Hobbes' theory (re: Locke) on the basis of the "social contract." It's so funny how both try to point to religion as the place from which natural law is derived, yet Locke includes things that are not natural in his thinking. It's very interesting because it paints Hobbes into a simpleton corner yet I think he's more on the money than Locke. Locke seems more like he's trying to justify the economic mechanisms of his day rather than critically evaluating economics with "natural law.' I've been thinking about things in a complex systems framework and both seem to identify differing levels of scale within "culture" though the idea that this scale is a measure of "civilization" is telling and helps to inform the last 400 years.