Mark Ackerman
US Government
10/7/2015
John Locke's Philosophy of Natural Law
John Locke is known as one of the founders of Liberal philosophy, a worldview founded on ideas of liberty and equality. It is also used as the primary foundation for the American Constitution and many of today's western political systems. In Two Treatises of Government, Locke's greatest attest to his political view, he presented his view of "natural" rights, natural law.
Natural law is defined as an ethical belief or system of beliefs supposed to be inherent in human nature and discoverable by reason rather than revelation. In Locke's Two Treatises of Government, he states,i "The natural liberty of man is to be free from