Exam 3 Flashcards
(40 cards)
Earl of Shaftsbury
Locke’s surgery
conflict when Locke was a confidential secretary
conflict with Charles II over his ties with Louis XIV
excllusion bill
1679 to prevent James from succeeding Charles
who was the former duke of york?
James II
Patriarcha
robert filmer
who did Locke Locke wish to establish the throne
William II
what is property?
lives, liberties, and estates
states protect our right to form what?
voluntary associations
to what is toleration extended to?
deists but not atheists
who is living on the borrowed moral capital of a lockean religious ethic?
modern liberal democracies
nemo dat quod non habet
people cannot grant powers they themselves lack
what are the difficulties of the duty to punish?
a. problem of motivation
b. strictness or lenience of judgment
c. organizing judgment
d. government is the solution
upon what does legitimacy rest on?
on the rights we transfer to our rulers
what are we stewards of?
God’s donation
why we should wish to leave the state of nature
a. no need for government if we could all follow simple moral rules
b. needs of developed economy
c. a world of equal poverty
d. the golden age of the poets
e. rational people would move to agriculture and commerce
what is a defense of the lawfulness of landed property
productivity
locke: right to acquire a living
a. god wishes us to flourish
b. the transformation benefits even the day laborer
creation of money
a. durables as proto-money
b. money defined functionally
1. fancy value
2. money is conventional
c. complexities would defeat a market economy in a state of nature
how are conventions kept alive?
by consent
who owes a distinctively political allegiance?
citizens
what is the point of a revolution?
renovation of the constitution?
what is a church?
voluntary association
Hobbes freedom?
silence of the law
who was adviser to the earl of Shaftsbury?
Locke
